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loped than those of the female. It further differs from the four 

 existing African species of two-horned Rhinoceros, not only by pos- 

 sessing slight skin-folds, but also by having the bases of the horns 

 separated by a considerable interval : Bell's figure (in the ' Philoso- 

 phical Transactions' for 1793) represents, as I believe, their full deve- 

 lopment in an adult female ; as shewn likewise in a (Tenasserim) 

 stuffed head in the Society's museum, already referred to : and over 

 Bell's figure of the skull of a male are represented in outline the horns 

 of an ordinary male ; not quite so fine, however, as those upon Col. 

 Fytehe's specimen ; and that officer informs me that he has possess- 

 ed a head with still finer horns, some five or six inches longer. 

 Unfortunately, fine horns of Rh. sttmatkanus are exceedingly diffi- 

 cult to procure ; as they are eagerly bought up at high prices by 

 the China-men, who not only value them as medicines, but carve 

 them into very elegant ornaments.* Still the horns which Dr. Salo- 

 mon Miiller figures, upon what he calls an adult male, are small ; and 

 when I was at Pahpoon, amid the forests of the Tunzalin district of 

 Upper Martaban, in November last, an animal of this species was 

 killed within five miles of me ; but I did not learn of this in time, 

 and was only able to procure the facial bones with the two horns. 

 From their size and appearance 1 took them to be the horns of 

 rather a juvenile male ; but, on cleaning the bone, the nasals were 

 found to be most completely and solidly anchylosed and united, and 

 of the usual width in the male sex. The Karens obtained the ani- 

 mal by means of a heavy falling-stake, such as they set for Tigers 

 and other large game ;f and the carcase was completely hacked to 

 pieces by them, and every edible portion of it devoured. 



The Rev. Dr. Mason remarks, in his work on ' The Natural Pro- 

 ductions of Burmah' (1850), that the hide of the two-horned Rhi- 

 noceros of that region is " smooth like a Buffalo's." This expression 

 might mislead into the suspicion that the species is not exactly the 

 same as that of Sumatra. Col. Fytche writes word, on this subject, 



* The anterior horn of Col. Fytehe's specimen is worth (I was told) about 

 fifty rupees, or £5. 



I have seen a pair beautifully carved and polished, and set with the bases 

 upward, in a black wooden frame similar to the stands on which Chinese metallic 

 mirrors are mounted; and am sure now that they were the two horns of 

 one individual of Rh. sumateanus, of about the same development as those 

 upon Col. Fytehe's specimen. 



t Vide Andersson's ' Lake Ngami,' 2nd edit., p. 258. 



