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is found in the Sunderbuns, and from Manipur through Burmah ''\ 

 to the Malay Peninsula ; the third is found in Arakan and \ 

 Tenasserim ; the fourth, from Tenasserim through Burmah ■ 

 to Siam and the Malay Peninsula ; the two first varieties \ 

 being one-horned, the two last two-horned. The Asiatic rhino- j 

 ceros differs from the African in three particulars : the skin j 

 is divided into shields by well-marked folds ; he has long 1 

 upper cutting teeth (the African having none), and the nasal ■ 

 bones of the skull are produced and conical instead of broad : 

 and round (Sterndale). \ 



The chief difference between R. indicus and R. sondaiciis is \ 

 that the latter has a well-marked fold in front of the shoulders, \ 

 the line running over the back of the neck, whilst in Indicus it | 

 dies away on the shoulder-blade ; the head of Sondaicus is also j 

 somewhat slenderer, and the female has no horn. In Indicus | 

 both sexes have this horn, and the curious tesselated appearance | 

 of the hide in one is very different from the tuberculated armour 

 of the other. 



Though Sondaicus has been described as the lesser Indian 

 rhinoceros, there is little difference in the size between this and 

 other Indian varieties. 



R. lasiotis and R. sumatrensis have more or less hairy I| 

 hides instead of tubercles. Lasiotis is larger, lighter in colour, (i 

 with wide-set ears, a short tufted tail, and a long fringe of hair i 

 on the back edge of the ear ; Sumatrensis is smaller, darker, | 

 with close-set ears (which are filled with black hair but have i 

 no fringe), and tail long, tapering, and semi-nude. 



The native names of all four varieties seem much the I 

 same : ' Gainda,' ' Gaira,' ' Gonda,' generally ; ' Gor ' Assam, i 

 * Khyenhsen ' Burmah, ' Bodok ' Malay. j 



The rhinoceros does not extend to Central and Southern j 

 India, being only found in the heavy grass swamps of the Terai, ii 

 Assam, &c. ; consequently the only way of hunting this beast is \ 

 with elephants. The rhinoceros may be either tracked up to his ij 

 lair on a single elephant, or the jungle may be beaten as for tigers. | 



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