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Lydekker, R., 1907. The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Indian Rhino |
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With the exception of a fringe on the margins of the ears, and some bristly hairs on the tail, the coarse and massive skin is completely nude; the tubercles attaining their maximum development on the shoulders, thighs, and hind-quarters, where they not unfrequently measure an inch in diameter. On the limbs the place of these tubercles is taken by a number of small many-sided scales. The main folds in the skin of the body are three, namely, one in front of the shoulder, a second behind the same, and a third in front of the thighs and hind-quarters; the second and third are alone continued, across the back, the first inclining backwards towards the second and dying out on the shoulder. In addition to the coif-like folds around the head, a deep horizontal pleat separates the shoulder-shield frgm the fore-leg, while a similar fold divides the rump-shield from the hind-limb. Folds also occur on the hind border of the rump-shield, so that the tail is enclosed in a deep groove, in such a manner that only its terminal portion is visible in a side view.
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