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Sydney. The nest was oven-shaped in form ; outwardly constructed 
of roots, tendrils and leaves of palms, and lined with green mosses. 
It was about 2 feet in length by 16 inches in breadth, domed over 
except at one end. The eggs, barely 2% inches long by 13 broad, 
are of a deep purplish chocolate, irregularly blotched and freckled 
with a darker colour. 
The nest and eggs are deposited in the national collection at the 
British Museum. 
2. Notice OF A PRESUMED New SPEcizEs or RHINOCEROS, 
FROM SouTH AFRICA. 
By J. E. Gray, Pu.D., F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., P.B.S. ere. 
Colonel Thomas Steele having most kindly presented to the Bri- 
tish Museum a pair of horns of a two-horned Rhinoceros, which was 
discovered in the interior of South Africa by his friend Mr. Oswell, 
Dr. Gray exhibited the horns; and having pointed out the peeu- 
liarity of their form, proposed that they should be provisionally de- 
scribed as belonging to a new species, under the name of Rhinoceros 
Oswellii. 
RC,WEST.SC 
The front horn is elongated and thick ; but instead of being bent 
back, as is the general character of R. bicornis, or erect, as in R. si- 
mus, is bent forwards, so that the upper surface is worn flat by being 
rubbed against the ground. The front horn in the pair exhibited 
was 31 inches long, flat, square, rough and fibrous in front, rounded 
