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examination, besides the figures referred to. Strange to say, we do 

 not yet possess a single ' spoil' of this species in the museum of the 

 Society ! But I trust and have reason to believe that this singular 

 hiatus in our series will speedily become a record of the past. 



Plate I, fig. 2, represents the broad type of skull of Eh. sondai- 

 ■ctjs, from the Bengal Sundarbans ; and pi. II, f. 2, the same from 

 the Tenasserim provinces. PL I, f. 3, and pi. II, f. 3, represent an 

 aged specimen of the narrow type of sondaicus, from Java. "We 

 have Tenasserim examples quite similar, except that they are not so 

 aged ; but I figure the Javanese one, that there should be no mis- 

 apprehension about the identification of the species. I have already 

 remarked that these comparatively broad and narrow types complete- 

 ly grade into each other, as likewise in the preceding species. It is 

 simply impossible to trace a dividing line in the instance of either 

 one of the three. 



Plate III, fs. 1, 2, represent the corresponding types of males of 

 the two-horned Ph. stjmateantts ; f. 3, of a female, of which the 

 stuffed skin of the head is also in the Society's museum. All are 

 from the Tenasserim provinces. 



Plate IV, f. 1, is from a drawing which I took of a beautiful spe- 

 cimen in the possession of Lt.-Col. Fytche, Commissioner of the 

 Martaban and Tenasserim provinces, at Moulmein.* The animal was 

 killed in Tavoy province, near the frontier of Siam. When I first 

 saw this specimen, the horns were attached to the skin ; and they 

 now fit to the rugosities of the bony surface. The resemblance of 

 the anterior horn (more especially) to the extraordinarily fine horn 

 figured as th^t of a new species, Ph. Ceossii, Gray (in the Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1845, p. 250, and copied in pi. IV, f. 4), induced me to con- 

 jecture that the latter was merely a magnificently developed specimen 

 of the anterior horn of Eh. sumateanus ; but the difference of size 

 (that of Eh. Ceossii measuring 2 ft. in span of curvature from base 

 to tip) seems to be too great. Of the near affinity, however, there 

 can be no doubt ; and it is just such a horn as the nearly akin 

 (however huge) Eh. elatyehintjs of Cautley and Falconer, from 

 the Siwalik deposits, might have borne. f Other kindred fossil species 



* The horns, as represented in the lithograph, are not sufficiently massive, 

 t In a letter just received from Col. Fytche, who had recently returned from 

 a tour in the southern Tenasserim provinces, that officer writes — " I came across 



