Game Animals of India, etc. 



and body, but attains its maximum development on the 

 ears and the tail ; its colour varying from brown to 

 black. At their bases the two horns are separated from 

 one another by a considerable interval ; and although 

 in captive individuals they are generally much worn 

 down, when fully developed they are slender for the 

 greater part of their length, the front one curving 

 backwards in an elegant sweep, and attaining very 

 considerable size. The longest known specimen of the 

 front horn is in the British Museum, and has a length 

 of 2'^i inches, with a basal girth of lyf inches ; a 

 second specimen in the same collection measuring 27^ 

 inches in length, and 17^ in circumference. 



As regards the cheek-teeth, those of the upper jaw 

 are practically indistinguishable from the corresponding 

 molars of the Javan rhinoceros, and may accordingly be 

 taken as indicative of the leaf- and twig-eating pro- 

 pensities of this species. 



The Sumatran rhinoceros inhabits the islands of 

 Sumatra and Borneo, and is also met with in the 

 Malay Peninsula, whence it extends northwards through 

 Burma and Tenasserim to Chittagong and Assam, and 

 it also occurs in Siam. Compared with the typical 

 Sumatran animal {R. sumatrensis typhus)^ a specimen 

 from Chittagong formerly living in the London Zoo- 

 logical Gardens was distinguishable by its superior 

 dimensions, paler and browner hair, shorter and more 

 fully tufted tail, and the strongly developed fringe on 

 the margins of the ears, the interior of which was bare. 

 The skull was proportionately broader ; but this seems 

 a feature of minor import. Although originally regarded 

 as a separate species, the Chittagong rhinoceros is best 

 classed as a local race of the Sumatran animal, with the 

 name Rhinoceros sumatrensis lasiotis. Other specimens 

 of the hairy-eared race have been subsequently obtained 

 in Assam, where the species is rare ; and one example 

 has been killed in Tippera, and a second in the Bhutan 

 Duars. In Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula it is 



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