Tue ZooLogist—May, 1872. 3059 
of the ‘ Field’ newspaper, a faithful representation of nature which 
does the artist infinite credit. In this and many other figures by 
the same artist, there is a total absence of that sensational exag- 
geration which often converts a portrait into a caricature. The 
skin is without those enormous folds which are so imposing in 
R. unicornis: it has only one fold, and that is immediately behind 
the shoulder and extends round the barrel of the animal; there are 
half-folds or large wrinkles between the ears, on the under side of 
the neck, and at the base of the fore legs: it is also without any 
indication of those dermal excrescences or tubercles which on the 
Unicorn species a good deal resemble flattened warts; the skin, 
moreover, appears flexible, and is covered with coarse hair, which 
is of a rufous-brown colour as far as the fold, and thence gray to 
the tail: this coarse hair occurs also on the upper anterior portion 
of the fore legs, and more sparingly on the belly. There is a fringe 
of long pendant hair on the margin of the ears, and also a good deal 
of long wiry hair on the tail. I purposely omit all reference to the 
absence or presence of incisor teeth, having no knowledge of the 
teeth except from books. 
For a most interesting account of the capture, purchase and 
transport of this valuable animal, I am indebted to the columns 
of the ‘Field, to which paper it was contributed by my friend 
Mr. Tegetmeier. It is here reprinted. 
“ About five years ago a Calcutta paper announced the capture 
of a young female two-horned rhinoceros, which was taken near 
Chittagong, after having exhausted itself in its efforts to escape 
from a quicksand. In this condition it was secured by the united 
efforts of some 200 men, and, being bound with ropes, was secured 
to a tree. On the arrival of the news at Chittagong, Capt. Hood 
and Mr. Wickes started with eight elephants to secure the prize, 
which was found to be the two-horned Sumatran species described 
by Sir Stamford Raffles. After being bound with ropes between 
the elephants, she was marched into Chittagong, having to be con- 
veyed across two considerable rivers, through one of which she was 
towed by the elephants, and the second she passed in the ordinary 
cattle ferry-boat. So great was the attention she excited, that the 
train of followers sometimes reached a mile in length. Arrived at 
Chittagong, she was placed in charge of an attendant, and by 
feeding with chuppatees and plantain-leaves she became somewhat 
tamer. When first captured she was about six feet in length from 
