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not yet succeeded in obtaining a specimen, and I am not 

 aware that the animal has ever been brought alive to 

 Europe. It would be of great interest to place a living 

 example of this species by the side of its larger ally in the 

 Regent's Park. 



The third Asiatic species of rhinoceros is a very dif 

 ferent looking animal from the two previously mentioned, 

 having two horns on its forehead, the smaller of which is 

 situated just above the eye, and the other still farther 

 forward. Its body is, moreover, covered with bristly 



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hairs, and there is only one strong, well-marked cutaneous 

 fold of skin on the back, which renders it very unlike its 

 mailed brethren. This animal was until lately supposed 

 to be only found in the Island of Sumatra. Cuvier called 



it Rhinoceros sumatrensis from this circumstance ; and 

 our countryman, Sir Stamford Raffles, who obtained it in 

 that island about the same period, likewise proposed to 

 name it after the country to which he believed it to be 



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confined. It has, however, been recently discovered that \ was captured a little way south of Chittagong about four 

 the Sumatran rhinoceros extends northwards along the years ago. At the time of its capture, it is said to have 

 whole range of the Malay peninsula, at least as far as | been quite young, perhaps two years old. Now, however, 

 Chittagong. The fine female specimen of this rhinoceros j it is about four and a half feet high, and has probably 

 now in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London ' nearly attained its adult stature ; this species being the 



