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the Rhinoceros crossing the stream below ; and sometimes the pi'ocession was at least 

 a mile in length. The ' Begum,' as the Ehinoceros 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 Ehinoceros being in captivity in Chittagong having become 

 known to the Council of the Society, various endeavours were made to come to some 

 arrangement with tlie 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 S. sumatren&is. 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 i?. sumatrensis ". Later in the same 

 year, however, an example of the true B. sumatrensis 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 lasiofis, from the peculiar fringe of long hairs on the edges of the 



Ei-. 4. 



Eight ear of M. lasioiis, sliowiiig loug 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 



■ SeeP.Z.S. 1872, p. 129. 



^^See P.Z.S. 1872, p. 185, and lU. London News, llarch 23rd, 1872. 



' See Kep. Brit. Ass. 1872, p. 140; also 'Times,' August 10th, 1872, p. 5; ' Athenfcum,' Aug. 24, 1872, 

 p. 243; and ' Nature,' Oct. 24, 1S72, p. .518. ' Sec P. Z. S. 1872, p. 79U. 



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