Game Animals of India, etc. 



Eastern Bengal and the Sandarbans ; while a specimen 

 has been killed as far west as the Sikhim Terai. So 

 far as present information goes, the mainland form 

 cannot be distinguished from those inhabiting the 

 Malay islands, so that separate local races cannot yet be 

 differentiated. It is, however, quite likely that this is 

 due to the want of a good series of specimens, the 

 British Museum having, in addition to skulls and 

 skeletons, only the skin of a young calf in a condition 

 fit for public exhibition. 



Although found in the swampy Sandarbans of 

 Lower Bengal, within a day's journey of Calcutta, the 

 Javan rhinoceros prefers forest tracts to grass-jungles, 

 and is generally met with in hilly districts, where it 

 apparently ascends in some parts of its habitat several 

 thousand feet above sea-level. In most other respects 

 the mode of life of this species is probably very similar 

 to that of its larger relative ; its disposition is, however, 

 stated to be more gentle, and in Java tame individuals 

 are frequently to be seen wandering about the villages 

 of the natives. Mr. T. R. Hubback,^ on the evidence 

 of native testimony, affirms that either this or the next 

 species uses its lower tusks for fighting in the same 

 way as the great Indian rhinoceros. 



THE SUMATRAN RHINOCEROS 



(^Rhinoceros siimatrensis) 



Native Names. — Kyan and Kyan-shaw^ Burmese ; 

 Badak^ Malay 



(Plate i, fig. 4) 



Although possessed ot two horns, the Sumatran 

 rhinoceros resembles its Asiatic brethren in having 



1 Elephant and Seladang Hunting in the Federated Malay States,. 

 1905, p. 24. 



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