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support this idea of a two-horned Unicorn, yet there are others 
which point very decidedly to his characteristic of being one- 
horned; for instance, in Psalm xcii. 10, “My horn shalt thou 
exalt like the horn of the Unicorn:” the words “horn of the” are 
added by the translator. It is worthy of remark that in instances 
where horns is used in the plural so also is Unicorns: for instance, 
in Deut. xxxiii. 17, “his horns are like the horns of Unicorns;” 
Ps. xxii. 21, “for thou hast heard me from the horns of Unicorns.” 
No naturalist, who found in the narrative of a voyage that the 
captain brought home the horns of narwhals, would conclude that 
each narwhal had more than one horn: there is no other mode 
of so simply expressing the meaning as by making both words 
plural. It is not improbable that many of my readers will consider 
all this out of place: if so they will please “skip it” and pass on. 
The Sumatran rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sumatranus) is much less 
than the Indian species, Rhinoceros unicornis, two magnificent 
specimens of which are already in our collection, both unfortunately 
mutilated by the loss of their horn: the first loss, that of the male, 
was an instance of self-mutilation, for he absolutely forced the horn 
off of his own accord by employing it as a lever, apparently with 
the view of removing one of the bars of his enclosure: before this 
event the horn was observed to be loosened, and it is possible that 
might have caused some irritation. A similar accident is recorded 
in the ‘ Zoologist’ (S. S. 1915) as having happened to a female 
rhinoceros at Moscow: the horn is still preserved in the museum 
in that city, and the animal has developed a new horn on the site 
of the old one—a remarkable and interesting fact: the singular 
position or inclination of the horn of the female in the Zoological 
Gardens was recorded on the same page: this horn has now been 
removed, as will be seen by the record immediately following this 
memoir. 
The Sumatran species, as its name implies, was first discovered 
in Sumatra, but it also inhabits Burmah, and indeed a great part of 
continental India, and I believe the island of Java: it differs from 
R. unicornis in having two horns, one of which, the smallest, seems 
exactly intermediate between the eyes, and the other, the larger 
one, occupies the same site on the nose as the single horn of 
Unicornis. Both the horns in the individual now before me have 
the appearance of having been sawn off, an appearance admirably 
represented in the masterly figure of the animal published at p, 233 
