400 Mr. E. Blyth on the Species 



inhabiting the Tenasserim provinces, — also that a two-horned 

 species of some kind inhabits the province of Arakan, which I 

 presume to be the same as that obtained in the contiguous pro- 

 vince of Chittagong, viz. R. lasiotis^ Sclater. But at present 

 there is no evidence to show that the latter exists southward 

 (or to the south-east) of the Gulf of Martaban, unless the figure 

 of a Tenasserim skull published in the ' Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal' (vol. xxxi. p. 156, pi. iii. fig. 1) represents 

 that of R. lasiotis, which is not improbable. That the latter is 

 the two-horned species which has been killed (as I was assured 

 by a planter) in Assam, where it is considered an exceedingly 

 great rarity, is very highly probable ; and Dr. J. Anderson 

 mentions that while at Bhamo, in Upper Burmah, he " was in- 

 formed by an intelligent native that two-horned rhinocerotes 

 are found in the Mogonny district, which is close to the con- 

 fines of Assam, and as far north as the twenty-sixth degree of 

 north latitude" (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 129). 



The larger of the two obviously distinct species which we 

 have seen alive in London {R. lasiotis, Sclater) is considered 

 by Dr. Gray to exemplify the true R. sumatrensis ; while the 

 smaller of the two he imagines to be identical with the animal 

 which bore the long and much-curved anterior horn upon which 

 R. Ci-ossii, Gray, is founded [vide figure in Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1854, p. 250). Mr. Sclater with much better reason, as it 

 appears to me, assigns the smaller species to the veritable suma- 

 trensis ; but this can hardly be the same Sumatran animal as 

 is figured under that appellation by Professors Temminck and 

 H. Schlegel. 



That R. Crossii and R. lasiotis are the same I think extre- 

 mely probable ; for I have seen well-developed horns attached 

 to the skin of the head of a Tenasserim male of the small 

 blackish species, the skull of which was afterwards cleansed, 

 and is figured together with those horns in ' Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng.' [loc. cit. pi. iv. fig. 1). Though of similar peculiar 

 character, the anterior horn curves much less than in R. Crossii', 

 while that. the very remarkable amount of curvature of the 

 latter is normal is shown by the existence of a second, though 

 less developed, specimen of a horn in the museum of the 

 London Royal College of Surgeons, bearing the number 3086. 

 In both cases (or species) the horns are very slender except at 

 the base, and the structure of them is very much harder and 

 more compact than in other rhinoceros-horns ; for which reason 

 they command so high a price among the Chinamen (to be 

 elaborately carved upon) that fine specimens are hardly ever 

 procurable by Europeans ; and therefore it is that we do not 

 see them in our museums. The size of the R. Crossii horn 



