474 UXGULATA. 



liavc been killed within a few miles of Calcutta ; it lives in these culti- 

 vated districts on growing rice and vegetable roots. 



In the time of Baber, the founder of the Great Mogul dynast}', the 

 Rhinoceros occurred near Benares, in Central India. In his notice of 

 the animals peculiar to Hindustan, after describing the elephant, the 

 imperial author remarks : " The Rhinoceros is another. This also is 

 a huge animal. The opinion prevalent in our coimtries that a Rhi- 

 noceros can lift an elephant on its horn is probably a mistake. It has 

 a single horn over its nose upwards of a span in length; b/ I never 

 saw one of tw'O spans." From this it would seem that the j articular 

 species reierred to is Rhinoceros sondaiciis, inasmuch as Baber u ould prob- 

 ably have been able to obtain larger examples of the horn of Rhinoceros 

 ii/diciis. " Out of one of the largest of these horns," he adds, " I had a 

 drinking-vessel made and a dice-box, and about three or four fingers' 

 bulk of it might be left. Its hide is very thick. If it be shot at with a 

 powerful bow drawn up to the arm-pit with mucii force, the arrow enters 

 three or four fingers' breadth. They say, however, that there are parts 

 of its skin that may be pierced, and the arrows enter deep. On the sides 

 of its two shoulder-blades, and of its thighs, are folds that hang loose 

 and appear at a distance like cloth housings. It is more furious than the 

 elephant, and cannot be rendered so tame. It strikes j^owciTullv with its 

 horn, with which, in the course of these hunts, many men and many 

 horses were gored." This description of a One-horned Rhinoceros is 

 unmistakable, but it is strange to read that these animals could be killed 

 with arrows. 



The Wara is hunted for the sake of its horn, which is in great demand 

 in China. Pitfalls are dug in the paths it is known to traverse, and the 

 bottom of the pits planted with sharp stakes ; the whole is then covered 

 with branches and twigs. The i'Jhinf)ceros comes along, unsuspecting, 

 treads <m the treacherous boughs, and is either impaled at once, or at all 

 events rendered helpless. The adults are slain because they cannot be 

 extricated from the pit ; the young ones are led away captive. 



THE TWO-HORNED ASIATIC RHINOCEROS. 



The SuMATRAX Rhinoceros or Badak, Rhinoceros suinatriniiis, is the 

 basis of Gray's genus Ccra/orhinns. It is a comparatively small animal, 

 which ccrtainlv never nuich exceeds four feet in height; but its horns 



