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abouts, must have been B. sondaicus \ In the ' Naturalist's Library ' we are told that 

 this animal was brought from Bengal, having been for some time kept in the gardens 

 of the Governor-General at Calcutta. At the time Sir William Jardine's correspondent 

 who describes it was writing, it had been sixteen months in Great Britain, during which 

 time it had visited London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, and was the property of the 

 Managers of the Zoological Gardens at Liverpool. It was then supposed to be six 

 years old, and measured 4 feet 8 inches in height at the highest part of the back. 



This Lesser One-horned Indian Rhinoceros was, as is well known, formerly supposed 

 to be only found in Java. From the researches of Mr. Blyth " and other Indian 

 naturalists, we now know that this is an error, and that R. sondaicus (or a very closely 

 allied form) occurs also in various parts of British Barmah, and in the Sunderbans of 

 Bengal, in the immediate neighbourhood of Calcutta. Of a specimen obtained in 

 this last-named locality I exhibit a drawing by a native artist, taken from the specimen 

 in the Indian Museum at Calcutta, which, so far as I can see, indicates no material 

 differences from R. sondaicus verns. 



In the spring of 1874 Mr. W. Jamrach imported from Calcutta a young Rhinoceros, 

 stated to have been obtained in the Munipore district, of which I exhibit a drawing 

 made while the animal was at Hamburg. The example is rather remarkable for its 

 large head, long ears, and the numerous bossHike excrescences which cover its body ; 

 but after examining it in company with Mr. Bartlett and Mr. Garrod I came to the 

 conclusion that it was a young B. sondaicus ", although it appeared to have a rather 

 squarer, shorter upper lip than is usual in that species. This animal, after remaining 

 some time in London, was transferred to the Zoological Gardens at Berlin, where it now 

 remains. Dr. Peters, who, with his usual kindness, has more than once carefully 

 examined it for me, believes it to be B. sondaicus. 



3. Rhinoceros sumateensis. (Plate XCVII.) 



Double-horned Rhinocei-os of Sumatra, Bell, Phil. Traits. 1793, p. 283, unde 

 Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuv. Regii. An. i. p. 240 (1817). 



' It would have been more satisfactory, of course, to hare been able to examine the preserved specimen of 

 this animal ; but this unfortunately cannot be done. The specimen in question was acquired after its death by 

 the Trustees of the British Museum, and mounted, and is entered in the ' Catalogue of Mammals,' published by 

 Dr. Gray in 1843, as " Rhinoceros unicornis, a. From Mr. Atkins' Menagerie". When our R. unicornis, which 

 died in 1849, was received at the British Museum, its skin was, as I have been informed, mounted over that 

 of the Liverpool specimen, which is consequently rendered inaccessible. It wiU be observed that notwith- 

 standing this, in the new ' Handlist of the Edentate, Thick-skinned, and Rumiuant Mammals,' published 

 by Dr. Gray in 1873, the former entry is continued (p. 46) " 88 a. Animal stuffed, Atkin's Menagerie " whereas 

 it should be " Zool. Society's Gardens." 



' See Mr. Blyth's memoir ou the living Asiatic sjiecies of Rhinoceros, J. A. S. B. xxxi. p. 151 (1863). 



' This conclusion did not please Mr. Jamrach, who in October 1874 printed an account of the supposed new 

 species on a sheet of green paper, and proposed to call it R. jamrachii ! 



