3108 THE ZooLoGist—JUuNE, 1872. 
little, if any, doubt. The discovery of remains in some contem- 
poraneous deposit will probably decide the question sooner or 
later. 
Although there is no probability of the speedy extirpation of the 
R. indicus from such a country as Assam, a writer in the ‘ Oriental 
Sporting Magazine’ (for October, 1868, p. 638) remarks that the 
rhinoceros-shooting in the Bhotan dooars “ cannot last much longer. 
I am credibly informed,” he adds, “that the palwars or shikaris 
had killed no fewer than two hundred rhinoceroses in the Gomar 
dovar this year. Say fifty were killed only, and I think it will be 
understood that [sort of ] game will soon be exterminated, as the 
rhinoceros throws but one calf, which takes many years to come to 
maturity.” 
Both R. sondaicus and R. sumatranus appear to be extensively 
diffused in the Indo-Chinese and Malayan peninsulas, though not 
usually inhabiting the same districts; and the latter is probably 
that stated by Du Halde to inhabit the Chinese province of 
Quang-si, in lat. 15° N. In the island of Java there is only the 
R. sondaicus, and in those of Sumatra and Borneo only R. suma- 
tranus, so far as at present satisfactorily ascertained; but there 
is reason to suspect that R. sondaicus likewise inhabits both of 
these islands. The Malayan tapir does so, but not Java, and the 
Bos sondaicus all three of the great islands, as I have been assured 
by Prof. H. Schlegel, of Leyden, who is my authority for the 
assertion that Rhinoceros sumatranus inhabits Borneo. In the 
Tenesserim provinces the range of the Malayan tapir reaches to 
15° N. lat. Bos gaurus accompanies B. sondaicus to the Straits of 
Singapore, but not into any of the islands; while B. froutalis does 
not appear to inhabit, in its wild state, so far southward as Orakan. 
Eastward of the mountains which separate Orakan from Pegu it is 
not unlikely that B. sondaicus accompanies B. gaurus to reach at 
least the confines of the habitat of B. frontalis, as its range extends 
certainly northwards into the Shan states; but how much further 
to the eastward either B. sondaicus or B. frontalis extends we have 
yet to learn. Both Rhinoceros sondaicus and R. sumatranus, with 
Tapirus malayanus, would appear to inhabit Siam and Cambodia, 
and the tapir to extend also into Southern China. 
EK. BLYTH. 
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