THE ZooLocist—JunNE, 1872. 3107 
details the reader is referred to the volume of the ‘ Naturalist’s 
Library.’ I should estimate the weight of the male R. indicus in 
the London Zoological Gardens to be somewhat about three tons 
and a half. 
_ Dr. Jerdon remarks (in his ‘Mammals of India’) that R. son- 
daicus “is found at present in the Bengal Sunderbans, and a very 
few individuals are stated to occur in the forest tract along the 
Mahanuddee river, and extending northwards towards Midnapore ; 
also on the northern edge of the Rajmahal Hills near the Ganges. 
' Several have been killed quite recently,” he adds, “within a few 
miles of Calcutta.” In the early part of the sixteenth century of 
our era, Baber (great-grandson of Timor Lang, or Tamerlane, and 
founder of the dynasty of the Great Mogul, which we have seen 
extinguished in our own time) mentions incidentally the occurrence 
of the rhinoceros, the wild buffalo and the lion in the neighbourhood 
of Benares, and wild elephants in the vicinity of Chunar. In his 
notice of the animals peculiar to Hindustan, the royal author 
remarks :—-“ The rhinoceros is another. This also is a huge animal. 
* * * It has a single horn over its nose upwards of a span in 
length; but I never saw one of two spans. * * * Its hide is 
very thick. If it be shot at with a powerful bow, drawn up to the 
arm’s pit with much force, the arrow enters only three or four 
fingers’ breadth! They say, however, that there are parts of his 
skin that may be pierced, and the arrows enter deep. * * * 
There are numbers of them in the jungles of Peshawur and Hush- 
ungur, as well as by the rivers Sind and Behrah, in the jungles. 
In Hindustan, too, they abound on the banks of the river SirwA. 
In the course of my expeditions into Hindustan, in the jungles of 
Peshawur and Hushungur, I have frequently killed the rhinoceros. 
It strikes very powerfully with its horn, with which in the course 
of these hunts many men and many horses were gored.” 
Slight as is the description given by Baber, it nevertheless 
tolerably suffices to indicate R. sondaicus rather than R. indicus. 
The nasal horn of the latter species commonly attains to two spans 
in length, whereas one span (say nine inches) would be a large 
size for that of the other. Next, it is very doubtful if the hide of 
R. indicus could be pierced with an arrow as described, although 
that of R. sondaicus might be; and then we have the fact of the 
latter animal still lingering on the banks of the Mahanuddee, pre- 
suming it to be there correctly identified, of which there can be 
