LIVING IN THE SOCIETY'S MENAGEEIE. 655 



In the mean time I may be permitted to state my own opinion, that it will be found 

 that B. lasiotis is a northern representative of R. sumatrensis, taking its place in 

 Chittagong and Assam, where there are reports of the existence of a Two-horned 

 Rhinoceros ^ 



5. EEmocERos BxcoENis. (Plate XC'IX.) 



Rhinoceros unicornis, /3. bicornis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 104. 



Rhinoceros bicornis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 57, 1788 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 529, pi. 41 ; Rev. Cat. ^'ert. 



p. 80 ; Student & Int. Obs. vol. iv. p. 321, cum tab. ; 111. London News, Oct. 3rd, 1868. 

 Rhinoceros keitlou, 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 (PI. XCTX.) 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, 

 pi. 41), which was taken in 1868, shortly after its arrival. 



The present animal was purchased by the Council of Mr. Carl Hagenbeciv, the well- 

 known dealer of Hamburg, for the sum of £1000. Mr. 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 Cassala, 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 diflSculty, 

 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. 506. 

 - See Baker's ' Nile-Tributaries of Abyssinia ' (new edition), 1872, p. 114 et seq. 



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