1874.] MR. J. GOULD ON A NEW PARROT. 499 



is reason to believe that the animal is distributed (though not 

 abundantly) throughout the upper course of the Rejang, Kapuas, 

 Koti, Balungan, and, perhaps, all the larger streams of the island. 

 Both horns and teeth are brought to Sibu by natives arriving from 

 the above district for purposes of trade ; and these articles being 

 valued by Chinese and Malays for their supposed medicinal proper- 

 ties, at once command a ready sale, so that they disappear geuerally 

 beyond hope of recovery. 



" The Kayans call the animal ' Temadu ; ' and the country at the 

 head of the Rejang, i. e. for the last five days of its course, would 

 seem to be well suited to be the habitat of this bulky herbivore, 

 being described as destitute of any settled human population, and as 

 affording stretches of tolerably level and grassy country which affords 

 pasture to herds of a species of wild Ox. The horns of the latter 

 are often to be purchased at Sibu ; but I have never seen a skin or a 

 skull. The general close affinity between the faunas of Borneo and 

 Sumatra suggests that a Bornean Rhinoceros would be found to be 

 furnished with two horns ; and, in fact, natives describe it as being so. 



" It is very long since I have seen the horns of any species of 

 Rhinoceros ; but, so far as my memory serves, the large one I send 

 is unlike that of the R. sumatrensis." 



Mr. Bartlett exhibited a similar horn, but a larger example, which 

 he had obtained from a friend, along with some Dyak weapons 

 twenty years ago, and which was stated to have been received from 

 Borneo. 



Mr. Bartlett remarked that these specimens left no doubt of the 

 existence in Borneo of a Rhinoceros which was probably allied to B. 

 sondaicus, but of smaller dimensions*. 



The following letters were read : — 



" 26 Charlotte Street, 



Bedford Square, London, 

 October 30, 1874. 



"Dear Sir, — As I am still too unwell to attend the scientific 

 meetings of our Society, I shall feel greatly obliged if you will state 

 on my behalf, at the next Meeting of the Society on the 3rd of No- 

 vember, that I have received positive evidence of the existence of a 

 fine undescribed Parrot on the east coast of Australia. 



" This must be a magnificent bird, as will be seen from the enclosed 

 drawing, which is said to be an exact representation of it, both as to 

 size and colour. 



"This drawing was kindly forwarded to me by Mr. Waller, and 

 was made by his son from the specimen (unique) procured near Jim- 

 bour, which is a few miles north of Dalby, a small town on the 

 Darling Downs in Queensland. 



" Mr. Coxen writes me that the bird was in the possession of a 

 working man, who guarded it jealously. Mr. Coxen carefully com- 



* Cf. Busk, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 409. 



