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invariably a very conspicuous fold crossing the base of the neck 
above, which does not cross the base of the neck in the other, and 
the polygonal facets of the skin are small and of uniform size 
throughout, instead of forming huge bosses on the fore- quarters 
and haunches, as seen in the superb pair of R. indicus (R. 
unicornis) now living in the Regent’s Park. 
The dimensions of these animals, as usually assigned by sports- 
men, are those of the slain beast measured as it lay; the height _ 
being taken over the curve of the body, which adds a few inches to 
the real stature as the animal stood when alive. Thus the heights 
of the two species are generally given as respectively six feet and 
five feet at the shoulder, which must be understood to signify five 
and a half feet and four and a half feet, or thereabouts. If with a 
fairly-developed horn the lower of these heights is assigned, we 
may infer the particular species to be R. sondaicus, which in size is 
about midway intermediate between R. indicus and R. sumatranus. 
Dr. Horsfield indeed states that the Javanese individual figured 
and described by him subsequently attained to the height of five 
feet seven inches, which I cannot but regard as a mistake for 
four feet seven inches. A rhinoceros killed on the Garrow Hills 
is described to have a height of four feet five inches.* “It proved 
to be a male, with a pretty large horn, and was a very powerful 
animal;” whilst other rhinoceroses killed in the Same tract of 
territory are described as exceeding six feet in height, indicative 
of the great R. indicus. 
In Williamson’s ‘ Oriental Field Sports’ (published in 1807), the 
author fails, as usual, to discriminate the tivo species apart. His 
only figure (not a good one) is that of a young R. indicus; but he 
States that “It is very rarely that the rhinoceros has been found 
equal to six feet in height” (i.e. R. indicus) ; “he is ordinarily not 
more than four and a half to five feet” (é.e. R. sondaicus). I judge 
that the latter is the only one which he knew of as a wild animal, 
while his figure was probably taken from a young example of 
the large species that had been brought down from beyond the 
area of his personal observations, as they are not unfrequently 
brought down the Bréhmaputra from Assam at the present day. 
Sixty-five or more years ago, Capt. Williamson remarked that 
“the rhinoceros is seldom to be found on the western side of the 
* ‘Bengal Sporting Magazine,’ 1837, p. 276. 
