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also—chiefly thrushes’ and blackbirds’—I have been struck with the 
mysterious disappearance of some (but not all) of the eggs or young 
birds. Jays may be partly to blame, but I feel sure that in some 
instances they have been removed by the old birds themselves. 
Owing to these causes not more than one nest in twelve has come 
to maturity.—G. 
Cromer Lighthouse.—On the Ist three starlings flew against the 
lighthouse, and one titlark; wind N.W., gloomy and misty. On 
the 6th a wheatear; wind N.N.E., overcast and gloomy. On the 
7th a thrush; wind S.W. On the 27th four greater whitethroats. 
—G. 
Heron.—On the 10th I found some of the young in the nests at 
the Earlham heronry, hatched. There are twenty-six nests this 
year.—G. 
Lesser Redpole.—A pair seen on the 10th at Northrepps.—G. 
Wood Pigeon.—On the 25th I saw a nest only four and a half 
feet from the ground. The eggs were slightly saton; one of them 
had a soft end.—G. 
Wren.—April 26th. Of all the nests I have found this year I 
have not seen one with eggs in.—G. 
Asiatic Rhinoceroses. By E. Biytu, Esq. 
You state (Zool. S.S. 3060) that you are unaware that the lesser 
one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) has ever been brought 
alive to Europe. Allow me to inform you, therefore, that a speci- 
men of it existed for many years in this country, of which two 
figures from life are given in the volume on Pachydermata in 
Jardine’s ‘ Naturalist’s Library,’ where it is supposed to be the sole 
Indian rhinoceros, so far as was then known, as distinguished from 
the one at that time and long subsequently imagined to be peculiar 
to the island of Java. A skeleton of probably the same individual 
(identified by myself as that of R. sondaicus) may be seen in the 
Museum of Guy’s Hospital in Southwark. 
The general resemblance between the two species of one-horned 
rhinoceros is so considerable that ordinary sportsmen do not dis- 
tinguish them apart; but there are constant distinctions by which 
they may be readily discriminated at any age. The folds of the 
skin are much the same, with the exception that R. sondaicus has 
