LIVING IN THE SOCIETY'S MENAGERIE. 
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the Rhinoceros crossing the stream below ; and sometimes the procession was at least 
a mile in length. The ‘ Begum,’ as the Rhinoceros has been named, is now free from 
all ropes and kept within a stockaded enclosure, having therein a good bath excavated 
in the ground and a comfortable covered shed attached. She is already very tame, and 
will take plantain-leaves or chuppattees from the hand, and might almost be led about 
by a string.” 
The fact of a Two-horned Rhinoceros being in captivity in Chittagong having become 
known to the Council of the Society, various endeavours were made to come to some 
arrangement with the owners for its acquisition. These, however, did not lead to any 
result. 
In November 1871 Mr. William Jamrach, being in Calcutta and nearer to the spot, 
was more successful in his negotiations, and, having obtained possession of the animal, 
removed it to that city. Here it was carefully examined by Dr. Anderson, and minutely 
described in a communication to the Society read on the 6th of February, 1872, under 
the name of &. swmatrensis. On its arrival in England on the 15th of the same month 
it was purchased by the Society for the sum of £1250, and placed in the Elephant- 
house, being still supposed to be an example of 2. swmatrensis*. Later in the same 
year, however, an example of the true &. swmatrensis having been obtained by the 
Society, it became obvious that the Chittagong animal must belong, so far as could be 
told from an examination of the living individual, to a different species. I accordingly 
proposed to name it /astotis, from the peculiar fringe of long hairs on the edges of the 
Fig. 4. 
Right ear of 2. lasiotis, showing long hairs on ear-conch. 
ears, and described it under that name first at the meeting of the British Association at 
Brighton on the 16th of August *, and subsequently in a communication to this Society *. 
Dr. Anderson, in his memoir above mentioned, has specially commented on this 
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* See P. Z.8. 1872, p. 129. 
*.See P.Z.8. 1872, p. 185, and Ill. London News, March 231d, 1872. 
* See Rep. Brit. Ass. 1872, p. 140; also ‘Times,’ August 19th, 1872, p.5; ‘Atheneum,’ Aug. 24, 1872, 
p. 243; and ‘ Nature,’ Oct. 24, 1872, p. 518. * See P.Z.S. 1872, p. 790. 
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