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the aborigines, whose home is the forest, seldom see, and still seldomer 

 obtain it, much as they covet it for its delicious flesh, and eagerly as 

 they search for it on that account ; and an old Mech, who brought me 

 mine, informs me that in fifty years' abode in the Sal-ban, or Saul 

 Forest, though a hunter every season, he never got but three or four of 

 these much-desiderated animals to eat, partly owing to their scarcity, 

 and partly to the speed with which the female and young disperse, and 

 to the extraordinary vigour and activity with which the males defend 

 themselves whilst their families are retreating." 



d. RHINOCKRINA. 

 Genus RHINOCEKOS, Linn, et al 



283. RHINOCEROS SONDAICUS, Cuv. Horsf., Zool. Res., 

 with a figure. Mutter. 



Rhinoceros javanicus, Cuv. et Geoffr., Mamm.fasc. 46. 

 WARAK, Javanese. 

 BADAK, Malayan. 



HAB. Java exclusively, Horsfield, Mutter. 



A. A Drawing, Horsfield's Collection from Java, 



284. RHINOCEROS UNICORNIS, Linn. 



Single-horned Rhinoceros, Shaw, Gen. Zool. 1, I. p. 198. 

 GOR, of the Assamese, Walker. 



HAB. Continental India, Malayan Peninsula, Cantwr. 

 A. Horn, presented by Edw. Smith, Esq.* 



* The wild Rhinoceros from which this horn was taken was about the size of a small 

 Elephant ; he was shot by Mr. Thomas Craigie, at a small distance from Gwalpara, 

 on the borders of Assam, in the year 1777. The animal had been discovered asleep 

 near to the place where Mr. Craigie was on a visit, and though dissuaded from the 

 rash attempt, he would go out to attack the beast, being armed with a gun, and 

 having a pistol in his belt : three gentlemen were present on horseback he went on 

 foot. He approached to within about thirty feet of the animal, whom he aroused 

 by firing at him his pistol ; the beast instantly got up to see from whence he was 

 attacked, but just as he was prepared to make his charge, Mr. Craigie (having knelt 

 down on one knee) levelled his piece, and the ball entered the head just between the 

 eyes ; the beast rushed forward, but Mr. Craigie avoided him by springing on one 

 side, and the animal fell dead near the spot where he had knelt. 



