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Ganges, though the jungles there are fully competent to bear 
abundant shelter; nor, indeed,” he adds, “has an elephant ever 
been seen in its wild state but to the eastward, and far distant from 
the banks of that noble river.” 
The geographic range of the great one-horned species appears 
to be very limited, it being chiefly confined to the base of the 
eastern Himalaya, but extending across the valley of Assam to the 
hills immediately on its southern border, where it co-exists with 
R. sondaicus, if not also with R.sumatranus. I was assured by 
an indigo-planter that he had seen in Lower Assam the dried 
head of a two-horned rhinoceros, which was there considered an - 
exceedingly great rarity. 
The one-horned rhinoceros of the Sundarbans of Lower Bengal 
is R. sondaicus and not R. indicus. There is a skeleton of the 
former in the Calcutta Government Museum, being that of an 
individual which was killed in the Jessore district; and the skull 
of a Sundarban specimen was (if it be not still) in the possession 
of Mr. Arthur Grote, late of the Bengal C.S., which was obtained 
about 1860, and is indubitably that of R. sondaicus, as compared 
with other skulls of the same species received from the Tenesserim 
provinces and from Java. Upon showing a fine series of skulls of 
the two one-horned species to a gentleman who had killed as many 
as nine rhinoceroses in the southern half of the Malayan peninsula, 
he had no hesitation in identifying the only kind with which he 
had long been familiar as the R. sondaicus. 
The R. indicus is particularly numerous in the valley of Assam, 
from which province young examples are not unfrequently brought 
to Calcutta for sale, and are thence exported to Europe and America. 
The other one-horned species, though inhabiting so much nearer, 
is hardly ever brought for sale to Calcutta. The example of it 
formerly exhibited in this country (as already mentioned) was 
“4 male, and was brought from Bengal, having been for some time 
kept in the gardens of the Governor-General in Calcutta” (7, e. in 
Barrackpore Park). ‘ He has been sixteen months in Britain,” it 
is added, “ during which time he has visited London, Glasgow and 
Edinburgh, and is at present” (circa 1835) “the property of the 
proprietors of the Zoological Garden at Liverpool. It is stated to 
be six years’ old, and to weigh two tons; is a beautiful specimen, 
and appears to be in the highest state of health. Height, from the 
highest part of the back, four feet eight inches.” For further 
