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Rhinoceros sumatranus, Raffles, Linn. Trans. xiii. p. 268 (1820). 
Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Sclater, P. Z.S. 1872, p. 790, pl. Ixvii.; Bartlett, P. Z.S. 1873, p. 104, 
pl. xi. (vit.). 
Ceratorhinus sumatrensis, Garrod, P. Z.8. 1873, p. 92. 
Ceratorhinus crossii, Gray, Ann. N. H. ser. 4, vol. x. p. 209. 
Ceratorhinus niger, Gray, Hand-l. Edent. &e. p. 48. 
The first example of the true Sumatran Rhinoceros received by the Society arrived 
in the Gardens on the 2nd of August, 1872, and, after some negotiations, was purchased 
of Mr. William Jamrach, who had deposited it in our care, for the sum of £600. 
Shortly after its arrival the present drawing of it (Plate XCVIL.) was taken by Mr. Wolf. 
The animal, which was an old female with the lower incisors lost, did not thrive with 
us, and died about six weeks after its arrival. Professor Garrod has given us an 
excellent account of the anatomy of its soft parts in the Society’s ‘ Proceedings’'!; and 
the skin and skull were sold to the trustees of the British Museum. 
Some time afterwards I ascertained from Mr. William Krohn that this animal had 
been originally captured in the Sunghi-njong district of Malacca, and had been sold by 
him to Mr. Jamrach through a London agent. 
Although after this date several Rhinoceroses from the same district or the neigh- 
bouring territory of Johore were imported into Europe’, we have not up to the present 
time succeeded in replacing our loss of this species *. 
In an article in the ‘ Annals of Natural History’ for 1872‘, the late Dr. Gray, without 
even ever having seen the two animals then living in our Gardens, endeavoured to show 
that the next species, which I have named R. lasiotis, was the true &. sumatrensis, 
and termed the present animal #. erossii, Blyth having previously suggested that the 
horn upon which R, crossii, Gray (P. Z. 8.1854, p. 250), was established probably might 
have been that of an individual of 2. swmatrensis*®. But in his ‘ Hand-list of Edentate 
Thick-skinned and Ruminant Mammals,’ published in 1873, Dr. Gray changed his 
opinion, and proposed the new name Ceratorhinus niger for the Sumatran Rhinoceros, 
under which designation our specimen, now stuffed, in the British Museum, at present 
stands °. 
* «On the Visceral Anatomy of the Sumatran Rhinoceros (Ceratorhinus sumatrensis),” by A. H. Garrod, B.A., 
E.Z.8. (P. Z.8. 1873, p. 92). 
* See Mr. Bartlett’s account of a female of this species that produced a young one on board ship in the 
Victoria Docks in December 1872 (P. Z. 8. 1873, p. 104). 
* P.S., July 28th, 1876.—In July 1875, just after this paper was read, Mr. C. Jamrach deposited in the Gardens 
an adult female of this Rhinoceros, which was subsequently purchased by the Society for the sum of £600. 
* Ann, Nat. Hist. ser. 4. vol. x. p. 207. 
5 J. A.8. B. xxxi. p. 156. 
° P.S., July 1876.—Blyth, however, in his ‘ Catalogue of the Mammals of Burmah,’ published after his 
decease, came to exactly the contrary conclusion, and united 2. lusiotis to R crossii. So much for the value of 
names based on horns and such fragments of specimens ! 
