LIVING IN THE SOCIETY'S MENAGERIE. 649 
Ahmed, a native draftsman’. Mr. Jamrach grounded his supposed new species on 
“the markings of the skin, which seemed to be studded with buck-shot,” the “ very 
long tail” and “ extraordinary large ears.” 
When this animal reached London it was carefully examined by Mr. Garrod, Mr. 
Bartlett, and myself, who all agreed that it was merely a young R. wnicornis; as might 
have been supposed to be probable from the locality in which it was obtained. The 
animal died in Mr. Rice’s establishment; and the skin was not preserved ; but the skull 
is in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. Mr. Garrod, who has carefully 
examined it, assures me that it agrees in every respect with the skull of R. wnicornis of 
corresponding age. 
The present Rhinoceros, so far as is yet positively known, is only met with in a wild 
state in the Terai region of Nepal and Bhootan and in the upper valley of the Brah- 
maputra or province of Assam. 
2. RHINOCEROS sonDaIcus. (Plate XCVI.) 
Rhinoceros sondaicus, Desm. Mamm. it. p. 399 (1822) ; Sclater, P. Z.S. 1874, p. 182, pl. xxviii. 
Rhinoceros javanicus, Geoff. St.-Hil. et F. Cuy. in Hist. Nat. Mamm. sub tab. 309. 
“ Indian Rhinoceros, Liverpool Zool. Gardens,” Nat. Libr. vol. xxiii. plates 8 and 9. 
Of the smaller One-horned Asiatic Rhinoceros the only specimen yet acquired by the 
Society is the original of Mr. Wolf’s second drawing (Pl. XCVI.), which was executed 
in the summer of 1874. This animal, which is of the male sex, was purchased by us of 
Messrs. Cross and Jamrach on the Ist of March, 1874, for £8002. We were informed 
that it had been obtained at Batavia, and had been previously for some time in captivity 
in some tea-gardens near the city. It stands about 3 feet 9 inches in height at the 
shoulder. . 
Mr. Blyth, in a note to his memoir on Indian Rhinoceroses published in 1862 %, has 
stated that the adult male Rhinoceros which lived for many years in our gardens, and 
for which the sum of £1000 was paid (meaning, I suppose, the specimen purchased in 
1834), belonged to this species and not to R&. wnicornis. But there can be no doubt 
that he was mistaken, as may be proved by reference to the specimen itself, now in the 
British Museum. 
On the other hand it seems probable that there had been a specimen of 2. sondaicus 
living in England previously to the arrival of our example. On referring to the figure 
of the “Indian Rhinoceros in the Liverpool Zoological Gardens,” given by Sir William 
Jardine in the volume of the ‘ Naturalist’s Library’ on “ Thick-skinned Quadrupeds,” 
the second fold of the skin across the back of the neck which distinguished #. sondaicus 
from FR. unicornis is plainly visible. So far, therefore, as can be ascertained from the 
figure, the Rhinoceros living in the Liverpool Zoological Gardens in 1836, or there- 
? See P. Z.S. 1875, p. 82. 2 See Report of the Council for 1875, p. 25. ° J, A.8.B, xxxi, p. 151. 
