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mixed with poison it cleaves in two, which experiment has been 
seen by thousands of people.” John Evelyn also wrote of a well 
in Italy which was kept sweet by a Rhinoceros’ horn. This 
species seems to be long-lived, even in captivity; a specimen 
now to be seen in the Zoological Society’s Gardens has been there 
since the year 1864. 
Rhinoceros sondaicus, the Rhinoceros of the Sunderbunds, has 
a much wider range than the last species or Indian Rhinoceros 
Fic. 131.—Sumatran Rhinoceros. Rhinoceros sumatrensis. x -;. (From Nature.) 
This is unknown out of India itself, and is there limited to a small 
region; the Sondaic form is found in Bengal and in the Malayan 
Islands. It is a smaller species, and the armour has a tesselated 
appearance. The female generally, if not always, is hornless. 
The Sumatran species, Rhinoceros sumatrensis, is to be dis- 
tinguished from the last two by its two horns. — It is also covered 
