310 RniNOCRROTIDJi:. 



Indian Rhinoceros that had been kept in a menagerie, and so very 

 poorly fed that it never arrived at its full growth. The sknll shows 

 no sign of disease of any kind ; the teeth are well worn down, as if 

 it had had abundant food. Starvation is not likely to produce any 

 such change in the proportions of the parts as this skull presents 

 when it is compared with the skull of the adult R. xmicornis, or even 

 when compared mth the skull of a J'oung li. unicornis of nearly 

 the same size. Starvation is not likely to have decreased the growth, 

 and at the same time to have extended the size and thickness of 

 the temporal muscles, M'hich is so characteristic of this interesting 

 species. 



This skull having formed part of the collection of Sir Stamford 

 Eaffles renders it probable that the animal was a native of Sumatra. 

 Sir Stamford had in his collection a few specimens fi'om other loca- 

 lities — some obtained from Singapore, that being the general entre- 

 pot for the productions of the Malay peninsula and islands. There 

 being in this collection only the upper jaw preserved goes far to 

 prove that it is not the skull of a menagerie specimen as has been 

 suggested. 



Sir Stamford Raffles observes, " There is another animal in the 

 forests of Sumatra never yet noticed, which in size and character 

 nearly resembles the Rhinoceros, and which is said to bear a single 

 horn. The animal is distinguished by having a narrow Avhitish belt 

 encircling the body, and is known to the natives of the interior by 

 the name of Tennu. It has been seen at several places ; and, the 

 description given of it by several persons unconnected with each 

 other corresponding generally, no doubt can be entertained of the 

 existence of such an animal " (see Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 269 ; Blyth, 

 I. c. p. 164). I have little doubt that the skull here described is 

 that of the Tennu. 



B. The forehead and nose suhci/lmdrical, rounded on the sides. Rhinoceros. 



5. Rhinoceros stenocephalus. B.M. 



Skull (half-grown) like that of M. unicornis of the same age, but 

 narrower and compressed: the forehead is narrow and subcylindrical ; 

 the nose much naiTowor and more slender; the nose is scmicylindrical 

 at the base of the horn ; the nasal bones narrow, gradually tapering 

 in front, more than twice the length of the width at the base of the 

 nasal, more than four-fifths of the length of the forehead from the 

 internasal suture to the occipital crest ; lachrymal narrow, oblong, 

 erect, about twice as high as wide. 



Rhinoceros stenocephalus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 1018, f. 5, 6. 



Ilab. Asia. 



There is a single skull of a half-grown animal of this species in 

 the British Museum (722 e), which was received from the Zoological 

 Society, without any special habitat. In the roundness of the nose 

 it shows some affinity to the skull of JR. sumatrensis ; it is different 

 from that species in many particulars, in the prominence of the 



