The Zoologist — November, 1869. 1915 



imagined, of the queen bee, T cannot tell, never having succeeded in 

 catching the sounds attributed by others to her apiarian majesty. 



Now for the sequel : this morning (2nd of October) I was arranging 

 a piece of carpeting, with which the above-mentioned hive had been 

 covered all the summer as a protection from rain, when, lo! between 

 the folds, sleeping, it may be, the unquiet sleep of satiety, there la}' 

 my friend — at least a moth of the same species; and, inasmuch as 

 the perfect insect is by no means common with us, I have little doubt 

 of her personal identity. It is the finest British specimen I ever set 

 eyes on. As it has never been seen flying about since the 16th of 

 June, I more than suspect I have aflforded this dear lover of honey 

 lodging as well as board all these months; in fact, that my lodger 

 descended every evening, resorted to the stores within the hive, made 

 a hearty supper, and then quietly went up to bed again in the old 

 carpet. 



I will just add, that in captivity this moth on being touched 

 emitted sounds, feeble but distinctly heard by sharp ears, corre- 

 sponding with those I heard from the interior of the hive in the 

 summer. 



Charles A. Bury. 



Rhinoceros Horn lofpling forward, ^c. — Visitors to the Zoological Gardens, 

 Regent's Park, are likely to have remarked how very much the long single horn of 

 the old female Rhinoceros indicus inclines forward, as a consequence of its own weight 

 and of the attachment of it merely to the skin, so that it is movable lo a considerable 

 extent. This circumstance is at once suggestive of the idea entertained by the South 

 African traveller Chapman and others, that the alleged Rhinoceros Oswellii is no 

 other than an old and very long-horned example of R. simus, with its anterior horn 

 inclining forward in like manner. I shall not be greatly surprised if, in one of her 

 moods of violence, the female rhinoceros at the Gardens detaches her horn from the 

 skin, as happened three or four years ago with an animal of the same species at 

 Moscow, the horn of which is now preserved in the museum of that city, while the 

 creature has developed another horn in its place. That the horn of a rhinoceros, 

 which consists merely of agglutinated hair, is liable to be occasionally thus shed (or 

 rather knocked off), occurred to me many years ago on my obtaining the facial portion 

 of the skull, with the skin and two horns attached to it, of an old male of R. suma- 

 tranus. From the small size of its horns, I at first supposed the animal to have been 

 adolescent; but, upon maceration of the specimen and removal of the skin, it was at 

 once perceived, from the complete anchylosis of the facial bones, that the animal must 

 have been considerably aged, and the idea at once occurred to me that its first horns 

 must have been cast or shed, and that others had been developed in their places. If 

 the forehead be examined of the old female rhinoceros in the Regent's Park, it will be 



