LIVING IN THE SOCIETY'S MENAGERIE. G49 



Ahmed, a native draftsman '. Mr. Jamrach grounded his supposed new species on 

 " the markings of the skin, which seemed to be studded with buck-shot," the " very 

 long tail " and " extraordinary large ears." 



When this animal reached London it was carefully examined by Mr. Garrod, Mr. 

 Bartlett, and myself, who all agreed that it was merely a young B. unicornis; as might 

 have been supposed to be probable from the locality in which it was obtained. The 

 animal died in Mr. Rice's establishment ; and the skin was not preserved ; but the skull 

 is in the Museum of the Eoyal College of Surgeons. Mr. Garrod, who has carefully 

 examined it, assures me that it agrees in every respect with the skull of B. unicornis of 

 corresponding age. 



The present Rhinoceros, so far as is yet positively known, is only met with in a wild 

 state in the Terai region of Nepal and Bhootan and in the upper valley of the Brah- 

 maputra or province of Assam. 



2. Rhinoceros sondaicus. (Plate XCVI.) 



Rhinoceros sondaicus, Desm. Mamm. ii. p. 399 (1822) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 182, pi. xxviii. 

 Rhinoceros javanicus, Geoff. St.-Hil. et F. Cuv. in Hist. Nat. Mamm. sub tab. 309. 

 " Indian Rhinoceros, Liverpool Zool. Gardens," Nat. Libr. vol. xsiii. plates 8 and 9. 



Of the smaller One-horned Asiatic Rhinoceros the only specimen yet acquired by the 

 Society is the original of Mr. Wolf's second drawing (PI. XCVI.), which was executed 

 in the summer of 1874. This animal, which is of the male sex, was purchased by us of 

 Messrs. Cross and Jamrach on the 1st of March, 1874, for £800 2. We were informed 

 that it had been obtained at Batavia, and had been previously for some time in captivity 

 in some tea-gardens near the city. It stands about 3 feet 9 inches in height at the 

 shoulder. 



Mr. Blyth, in a note to his memoir on Indian Rhinoceroses published in 1862^, has 

 stated that the adult male Rhinoceros which lived for many years in our gardens, and 

 for which the sum of £1000 was paid (meaning, I suppose, the specimen purchased in 

 1834), belonged to this species and not to R. unicornis. But there can be no doubt 

 that he was mistaken, as may be proved by reference to the specimen itself, now in the 

 British Museum. 



On the other hand it seems probable that there had been a specimen of R. sondaicus 

 living in England previously to the arrival of our example. On referring to the figure 

 of the " Indian Rhinoceros in the Liverpool Zoological Gardens," given by Sir William 

 Jardine in the volume of the ' Naturalist's Library ' on " Thick-skinned Quadrupeds," 

 the second fold of the skin across the back of the neck which distinguished R. sondaicus 

 from R. unicornis is plainly visible. So far, therefore, as can be ascertained from the 

 figure, the Rhinoceros living in the Liverpool Zoological Gardens in 183G, or there- 



' See P. Z. S. 1875, p. 82. ^ See Report of the Council for 1875, p. 25. ' J. A. 8. U. xsxi. p. 151. 



