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SONDAIC RHINOCEROS 



mixed with poison it cleaves in two, which experiment has been 

 seen by thousands of people." John Evelyn also wrote of a well 

 in Italy which was kejpt sweet by a Rhinoceros' horn. This 

 species seems to be long-lived, even in captivity; a specimen 

 now to be seen in the Zoological Society's Gardens has been there 

 since the year 1864. 



Rhinoceros sondaicus, the Rhinoceros of the Sunderbunds, has 

 a much wider range than the last species or Indian Rhinoceros 



FIG. 131. Sumatran Rhinoceros. Rhinoceros sumatrensis. x ^5. (From Nature.) 



This is unknown out of India itself, and is there limited to a small 

 region ; the Sondaic form is found in Bengal and in the Malayan 

 Islands. It is a smaller species, and the armour has a tesselated 

 appearance. The female generally, if not always, is hornless. 



The Sumatran species, Rhinoceros sumatrensis, is to be dis- 

 tinguished from the last two by its two horns. It is also covered 



