3060 THE ZooLocist—May, 1872. 
the forehead to the root of the tail, and upwards of four feet in 
height. The horns were small, not more than three inches in length, 
the upper being in front of the eyes. 
“The existence of the species became known to Mr. William 
Jamrach, a well-known natural-history collector, then located at 
Calcutta, who made three journeys to Chittagong to arrange for her 
purchase and transport. The animal was confined by ropes and 
chains some miles from Chittagong, and, from her size and want of 
docility, the transport was attended with great difficulty. Fortu- 
nately she had become attached to her feeder, and followed him 
by night as he carried a lantern and proceeded singing through 
extemporised roads to Chittagong, the passage through the villages 
being forbidden by the authorities. There she was embarked with 
great difficulty in a small vessel, being chained down on the deck, 
and conveyed to Calcutta. On her arrival she was so exhausted 
by her efforts to escape that she lay down after being landed, and 
had to be dragged by main force into the bazaar. 
“ The transport to England was a matter of the greatest difficulty. 
The strength of the animal is so enormous that it would have been 
impossible to confine her in an ordinary stall, such as would have 
served for a horse or ox, or even for a docile elephant. Mr. Jamrach 
therefore had a cage built of teak, in the strongest possible manner. 
The dimensions of this cage were twelve feet by nine feet, by eight 
feet high. As it now stands empty in the Zoological Gardens, it 
looks as if it would serve for a very fair-sized country cottage. In 
this the animal safely reached England, in company with five small 
elephants, a couple of tigers, and a number of smaller animals of 
various kinds. On arrival at the Gardens, it was found that there 
was no gate sufficiently wide to admit the cage, and a portion of the 
inclosure had to be taken down to permit of the entrance of the huge 
and intractable beast, which, tied by large ropes, was, not without 
some considerable risk to all concerned, conducted to the inclosure 
where she will in all probability spend the remainder of her life.” 
Two other species of Rhinoceros are said to exist; one in Africa, 
the white or flat-nosed rhinoceros, a two-horned species, which has 
been called Rhinoceros simus; the other Asiatic, a one-horned 
species, much less than Unicornis, and called Rhinoceros sondaicus. 
I doubt whether either of these has been seen alive in Europe. 
EpwarD NEWMAN. 
