48 HAND-LIST OF 



2. Ceratorhinus NIGER. 



C. Sumatranus (part), Gray, Cat. Carniv. dc. p. 313. 

 E. Crossii, Graij, Aiin. arid Mag. Nat. Hist. 1872, x. p. 209 (not 

 horn) . 



1588 d. Animal, stuffed. 



G. niger, Gray, Ami. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1873, xi. p. 357. 

 " Sumatra ? " Franks. 



1588 e. Animal, stuffed. 



E. Crossii, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1872, x. p. 209. 

 b. Skeleton of " e " ; mounted. 



C. niger, Gray, Ann. 1873. 



E. sumatranus, Sclater, Zool. Soc. Guide. 



Malacca. Zool. Soc. 72, 12, 31, 1. 



1076 a. Front horn ; adult. 32 in. Very slender. 



E. Crossii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 270, f. (horn). 



Sumatra ? 

 1076 b {9 e). Two horns on skin of head ; young. Front horn 9 in. 



Sumatra ? 

 1076 c. Horn. Slender and much curved, but not so slender or curved 

 as 1076 a. 



Hab. unknown. 72, 6, 12, 1. 



The British Museum purchased from the Zoological Society the 

 body of " 1588 e," which was obtained by Mr. William Jamrach at 

 Singapore, and which was captured at Malacca m 1871. It is peculiar 

 for having a very rough skin, the body being covered with thick black 

 hair ; the tail is comparatively long and thin. 



Mr. Edward Gerrard, jun., has preserved and stuffed the skin, and 

 prepared a very complete skeleton of the animal. 



The skull is very different from those of the Sumatran rhinoceros 

 (E. sumatranus, Eaffles), collected by Sir Stamford Eaffles and now 

 in the British Museum and in that of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, 

 and. from the skull which was pm'chased of Mr. Theobald, and proves 

 most distinctly that I was right in stating the animal, when alive, to be 

 very distmct from the Sumatran rhinoceros described and figured by 

 Bell in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' for 1793, to which Sir Stam- 

 ford Eaffles gave the name of B. sumatranus, under which name the 

 Malaccan rhinoceros was exhibited at the Zoological Gardens and 

 mentioned in the list of accessions in the ' Proceedings of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society ; ' and I see by the report that a paper on the details of 

 its visceral anatomy has been read to the Society by Mr. Garrod. 



There has for many years existed in the British Museum a stuffed 

 skin of a young specimen, " 1588 d,'' which was pui'chased of Mr. 

 Franks, of Amsterdam, as the young Sumatran rhinoceros ; but there 

 is reason to believe that this specimen was from Singapore, the port of 

 Malacca. 



The skull of the Malaccan rhinoceros is very like that of the 

 Sumatran one ; but it is shorter and broader than that of B. suma- 

 tranus. The hole in the cheek for the passage of the large vessels is 

 oblong, much larger, and nearer the margin of the nasal aperture ; 



