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to Mr. Rice's premises. The mother soon afterwards arrived in a van, and 

 the young one was fed with her milk. This is tlie only nourishment it 

 takes; but it is so strong and vigorous that it applies to the mother 

 repeatedly, and the keeper (who sleeps all night with it) informed us that it 

 had sucked no less than seven times during the night previous to our visit. 

 Descending some steps into a dark stable, we could see by the dim light of 

 a bull's-eye lantern that the further end had been partitioned off, and covered 

 with sacking to exclude the liglit. In this compartment the old rhinoceros 

 was lying down, while the young one, pretty strong on its legs, was walking 

 slowly towards us, and making for a square opening that led into a separate 

 chamber in which a feather-bed had been placed for its especial benefit. The 

 opening through which it entered is too small to admit the mother, although 

 the keeper, who shares its feather-bed, informed us that the dam comes to 

 the opening and looks in affectionatelj'^ at her infant while it sleeps. She is 

 very quiet, and seems little to think that with one toss of her strong and 

 sharp horn she could send cradle and keeper through the roof of the stable. 

 As we peeped in at a small aperture, the keeper holding the light down for 

 us, the young one walked up deliberately to the lantern, and gave us an 

 excellent view. In appearance it reminds one of the young hippopotamus, 

 but has a longer head, and apparently stands higher on its legs. The face 

 is bare, with just a rudiment of horn, but the body is covered with black 

 hair. The ears are long and directed backwards, although occasionally 

 twitched perpendicularly with a quasi-nervous movement. — Correspondent of 

 the ' Field: 



[The species to which this interesting mother and child belong is supposed 

 to be R. sumatrauus, but there has been such stumbling about the name of 

 the two-horned species of Asiatic rhinoceros, that I think it best to say little 

 on this head. — Edward Xemnan.] 



The Young Dippopotanius. — This inmate of the "Zoo" continues in 

 good health and grows rapidly. 



The Channel Islands Fauna. — The question of what islands should be 

 included as British Islands, in treating of their productions in making 

 collections, either zoological or botanical, is more complicated than at first 

 sight would appear. The term " United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland" excludes the Isle of Man, which is as much a dependency as the 

 Channel Islands and Heligoland. But the Isle of Man, geographically, 

 should certainly be included, and the Channel Islands and Heligoland 

 excluded. On the other hand, the Orkneys and Shetlands should certainly 

 be included, both geographically and politically, beyond a doubt, and the 

 Faroe Islands would certainly be included were it not for their political 

 separation. The latter, geographically, belong to the same series as the 

 other islands in the North of Scotland, the only difference being that the 



