550 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE RHINOCEROSES 
abouts, must have been R. sondaicus'. In the ‘ Naturalist’s Library’ we are told that 
this animal was brought from Bengal, having been for some time kept in the gardens 
of the Governor-General at Calcutta. At the time Sir William Jardine’s correspondent 
who describes it was writing, it had been sixteen months in Great Britain, during which 
time it had visited London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, and was the property of the 
Managers of the Zoological Gardens at Liverpool. It was then supposed to be six 
years old, and measured 4 feet 8 inches in height at the highest part of the back. 
This Lesser One-horned Indian Rhinoceros was, as is well known, formerly supposed 
to be only found in Java. From the researches of Mr. Blyth” and other Indian 
naturalists, we now know that this is an error, and that R. sondaicus (or a very closely 
allied form) occurs also in various parts of British Burmah, and in the Sunderbans of 
Bengal, in the immediate neighbourhood of Calcutta. Of a specimen obtained in 
this last-named locality I exhibit a drawing by a native artist, taken from the specimen 
in the Indian Museum at Calcutta, which, so far as I can see, indicates no material 
differences from R. sondaicus verus. 
In the spring of 1874 Mr. W. Jamrach imported from Calcutta a young Rhinoceros, 
stated to have been obtained in the Munipore district, of which I exhibit a drawing 
made while the animal was at Hamburg. ‘The example is rather remarkable for its 
large head, long ears, and the numerous bosstlike excrescences which cover its body ; 
but after examining it in company with Mr. Bartlett and Mr. Garrod I came to the 
conclusion that it was a young &. sondaicus*, although it appeared to have a rather 
squarer, shorter upper lip than is usual in that species. This animal, after remaining 
some time in London, was transferred to the Zoological Gardens at Berlin, where it now 
remains. Dr. Peters, who, with his usual kindness, has more than once carefully 
examined it for me, believes it to be R. sondaicus. 
3. RHINOCEROS SUMATRENSIS. (Plate XCVII.) 
Double-horned Rhinoceros of Sumatra, Bell, Phil. Trans. 1793, p. 283, unde 
Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuv. Regn. An. i. p. 240 (1817), 
1 It would have been more satisfactory, of course, to have been able to examine the preserved specimen of 
this animal; but this unfortunately cannot be done. The specimen in question was acquired after its death by 
the Trustees of the British Museum, and mounted, and is entered in the ‘Catalogue of Mammals,’ published by 
Dr. Gray in 1843, as “* Rhinoceros wnicornis, «. From Mr, Atkins’ Menagerie”. When our 2. wnicornis, which 
died in 1849, was received at the British Museum, its skin was, as I have been informed, mounted oyer that 
of the Liverpool specimen, which is consequently rendered inaccessible. It will be observed that notwith- 
standing this, in the new ‘ Handlist of the Edentate, Thick-skinned, and Ruminant Mammals,’ published 
by Dr. Gray in 1873, the former entry is continued (p. 46) “88 a, Animal stuffed, Atkin’s Menagerie” whereas 
it should be ‘ Zool. Society’s Gardens.” 
? See Mr. Blyth’s memoir on the living Asiatic species of Rhinoceros, J. A.S. B. xxxi. p. 151 (1863). 
> This conclusion did not please Mr. Jamrach, who in October 1874 printed an account of the supposed new 
species on a sheet of green paper, and proposed to call it 2. jamrachii! 
