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PACHYDERMATA.—RHINOCEROTIDA.
matran species (R. Sumatranus, Ra¥Fr.) is intermediate in these and other respects. In disposition also, there is a well-marked difference between the animals of the two divisions: the
African being characterized by a blind and malignant ferocity, while the Asiatic kinds are dully
pacific and inoffensive.
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INDIAN RHINOCEROS.
The species which has been the longest and the best known is the single-horned Rhinoceros of continental India, (R. Indicus. Cuv.) Both it, and some one of the African kinds, were repeatedly exhibited to the cruel Romans, in the bestial combats of the arena; but in modern
