1883.] J. Cockburn — Recent existence ofRhinoceros indicus in JV. W.P. 123 



new " monograms." I believe tbey will be noticed by Mr. Smith in his 

 forthcoming Essay on the Gupta coins. 



The Bengal coins were mainly of Nasiru-d-din Mahmud Shah I, and 

 his successor Ruknu-d-din Barbak Shah. Among them were a large num- 

 ber of entirely new types ; thus several of Barbak Shah, giving his entire 

 names and titles : " Ruknu-d-din Abiil Mujahid Barbak Shah." One of 

 Mahmiid's coins gave the new date 86i. What is particularly worthy of 

 notice is that the coins (many dated) of both Mahmud Shah and Barbak 

 Shah call them indifferently, Abiil Mujahid and Abiil Muzaffar ; thus 

 showing that these two Sultans were in the habit of using both names. 

 Descriptions and drawings of these Bengal coins will be published in the 

 Journal, Part I. 



The following papers were read — 



1. On the recent existence of Rhinoceros indicus in tlie North- West Fro- 

 vinces, and a description of an Archaic Roch painting from Mirzapur 

 representing the hunting of this animal. — By John Cockbuen. {With 

 Illustrations), 



While hunting in the ravines of the Ken river, two miles due south 

 of the town of Banda, Mr. Cockburn's attention was attracted by a num- 

 ber of minute fragments of teeth which whitened the surface of a ridge. 

 On closer examination he identified the outlines of the skull of a rhinoce- 

 ros ; and on digging up the spot, several fragments of bone were discovered 

 which, when examined by Mr. Cockburn and Mr. R. Lydekker, were found 

 to be those of Rhinoceros indicus. In addition to this piece of evidence of 

 the existence of this animal in the North- West Provinces, Mr. Cockburn 

 has lately come across two or three drawings of the rhinoceros in some 

 caves he has explored. The most important of these drawings is one 

 obtained from the Ghormangur Rock shelter near the fortress of Bijaigarh 

 in the Mirzapur District. Mr. Cockburn has made a tracing of the drawing 

 which was exhibited at the meeting. Six men are shown attacking a 

 rhinoceros. One of these men the animal has tossed with his horn, while 

 another, wearing an unusually large head-plume, endeavours to draw the 

 animal off by attacking him in the rear with a spear. The other men are 

 all armed with spears: only one of them appears to be entirely naked, all the 

 others having on a short kilt, probably resembling the fringed kilts worn by 

 savages in all parts of the world. Mr. Cockburn concludes his paper by 

 mentioning his reasons for believing the spears shown in the drawing to 

 have been made of wood and stone only. 



This paper will be published in the Journal, Part II. 



