56 J. Cockburn — On tJie recent existence q/" Rhinoceros indicus. [No. 1, 



IV. — On the recent existence 0/ Rhinoceros indicus in the North Western 

 Provinces ; and a description of a tracing of an archaic rock painting 

 from Mirzapore representing the hunting of this animal. — By John 

 CocKBUEN, Esq. 



[With Plates VII and VIII.] 



[Received Vth Juue—read 1st August, 1883.] 



On the 5th of July 1881 while hunting in the ravines o£ the Ken river 

 two miles due south of the town of Banda, 1 had the good fortune to dis- 

 cover the fossil remains of a rhinoceros. 



My attention was first attracted by a number of minute fragments 

 of teeth which whitened the surface of a ridge. On closer examination I 

 clearly identified the outlines of the skull of a Rhinoceros, marked by a 

 faint trace of fragments of bone. A glance at the pattern of a fragment of 

 a molar satisfied me of the correctness of my identification ; and carefully 

 marking the spot, I returned next morning accompanied by J. La Touche, 

 Esq., the Collector, H. Miller, Esq., the Assistant Magistrate, and C. F. 

 Knyvett, Esq., the Superintendent of Police. These gentlemen with much 

 spirit, aided me, and we dug up an area of about 4* square feet with our own 

 hands till no further trace of bone occurred. 



The appearance first presented was deceptive ; the inferior lateral half 

 of the skull was not perfect as might have been expected from the outline 

 observed, and all the bones were in a fragmentary condition. 



The bones and teeth obtained were the ascending ramus of the left 

 inferior maxilla as far as the insertion of the last molar in four fragments ; 

 a fragment of the glenoid cavity of the right scapula ; the right incisive 

 tusk nearly perfect ; several lower molars ; and one perfect upper molar, 

 which I regret to say was much split and dropped to pieces, when it was 

 found impracticable to put it together again. 



A large quantity of fragments of teeth together with some longitu- 

 dinally split pieces of the shafts of long bones were also obtained. 



The presence of well defined cingulum on the upper molar led me 

 at first to suppose that the remains belonged to an extinct species, but 

 on carefully comparing the extremely fragmentary fossils in company 

 with Mr. Richard Lydekker, the remains were found to resemble those of 

 Mhinoceros indicus sufficiently closely to enable us to tentatively assign 

 them to that species. 



R. namadicus to which species we might otherwise have assigned the 

 fossil is now admitted to be identical with JS. indicus. 



The mineral state of the fossil, the nature of the locality it was 

 obtained from, and the associated genera found in the Banda ravines closely 



