LIVING IN THE SOCIETY'S MENAGERIE. 655 
In the mean time I may be permitted to state my own opinion, that it will be found 
that FR. lasiotis is a northern representative of £. swmatrensis, taking its place in 
Chittagong and Assam, where there are reports of the existence of a Two-horned 
Rhinoceros ’. 
5. RRINOcEROS BICORNIS. (Plate XCIX.) 
Rhinoceros unicornis, 8. bicornis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 104. 
Rhinoceros bicornis, Gm. S. N. i. p.57, 1788; Sclater, P. Z.S. 1868, p. 529, pl.41; Rev. Cat. Vert. 
p. 80; Student & Int. Obs. vol. iv. p. 321, cum tab.; Ill. London News, Oct. 3rd, 1868. 
Rhinoceros keitloa, Blanford, Zool. Geol. Abyss. p. 243. 
Black Rhinoceros of Abyssinia, Baker, Nile-Tributaries (1872), p. 246. 
On the 11th of September, 1868, the first living African Rhinoceros that had been 
brought to Europe since the days of the Roman Amphitheatre arrived in the Society's 
Gardens, where it still remains in excellent health and condition. On its arrival this 
animal, which is of the male sex, and was then quite young (probably not more than 
two years old), measured about 6 feet in length of body, and stood 3 feet 6 inches in 
height at the shoulders. In August 1872 it stood 4 feet 6 inches in height, and has not 
much increased in that respect since that date, though the length of its body is now 
rather greater (about 8 feet 6 inches), and its bulk is certainly more considerable. 
Mr. Wolf’s drawing (Pl. XCIX.) represents this animal as it appeared in 1872, and 
may be compared with Mr. Smit’s drawing of the same individual (P.Z.S. 1868, 
pl. 41), which was taken in 1868, shortly after its arrival. 
The present animal was purchased by the Council of Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, the well- 
known dealer of Hamburg, for the sum of £1000. Myr. Hagenbeck had received it a 
few days previously, along with a large collection of other animals, from the late Herr 
Casanova, of Vienna. For several years successively this enterprising traveller had been 
in the habit of visiting in winter the country inhabited by the Hamran Arabs, to the 
south of Cassaldé, in Upper Nubia, and of bringing home thence Giraffes, Elephants, 
and other large animals captured by the prowess of those mighty hunters of whom 
Sir Samuel Baker has told us such marvellous stories*. In Herr Casanova’s last 
expedition, made in the winter of 1867-68, this living Rhinoceros was one of his spoils, 
previous attempts to bring home living specimens of the same animal having been 
unsuccessful. ‘The African Rhinoceros in the Zoological Gardens of Berlin was received 
subsequently—from the same source, I believe. 
To assign to this animal its correct scientific name is a matter of some little difficulty, 
as I shall now endeavour to show. Of the two forms of African Rhinoceros commonly 
distinguished as “ White ” and “ Black ”—though, according to some authorities, there 
‘ These reports have since been confirmed by more positive evidence. See P.Z.S. 1875, p. 566. 
* See Baker’s ‘ Nile-Tributaries of Abyssinia’ (new edition), 1872, p. 114 et seq. 
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