1862.] A Memoir on the living Asiatic Species of Rhinoceros. 363 



The museum of the Calcutta Medical College contains, as we have 

 seen, three noble skulls of indictjs, besides that with the entire 

 skeleton of an old female (both the broad and narrow types of skull 

 being represented) ; but it has neither sondaicus nor sumatkanus. 

 The Society's museum still wants the first species ; but is tolerably 

 well supplied with the two others. Sir T. H. Maddock, in 1842 

 {J. A. 8. XI, 448), presented us with two skulls of sondaicus (of 

 the broad and the narrow types), and also with two of stimatkanus 

 (one wanting the lower jaw), — all from the Tenasserim provinces : 

 and the skulls of an old male and of an adult female of sumatraitus, 

 the skin of the head of the latter, its axis vertebra, the long bones 

 of the limbs (minus the right fore-limb and scapula), and the two 

 scapulae and long bones of the four limbs of the male, were presented 

 to the Society by E. O'Reilly, Esq. (then of Amherst) in 1847 

 (J. A. S. XVI, 310, 502). In the As. Res. Vol. XIII, App, XVIII, 

 " part of the head of a two-horned Rhinoceros" is recorded to have 

 been presented ; and again, p. XIX, " the horn of a Rhinoceros from 

 Sumatra." The latter was not in the museum when I took charge of 

 it in 1841 ; but the former I think that I recognise in a pair of united 

 nasal bones (certainly belonging to this species), and in this case 

 the specimen would probably be from a Sumatran individual.* Of 

 sondaictts we have also a fine series of skulls (one of them from 

 Java, presented by the Batavian Society in 1844), the almost com- 

 plete skeleton of a very nearly full-grown female (being considerably 

 smaller than that of the female indictts in the Medical College 

 museum), and the small stuffed specimen to which I have before re- 

 ferred : the limb-bones of the skeleton being considerably more robust 

 than those of sttmatbanus. For this skeleton, (and those of Ele- 

 phant and Camel,) we are indebted to a former Nawab Nazim of 

 Bengal ; and it is, doubtless, either from Rajmahal or the Sundarbans : 

 the skull being of the broad type, though less strongly marked than 

 some others, in fact intermediate, though scarcely quite mid-way 

 intermediate. 



The following notice by Sir T. Stamford Raffles may be advan- 

 tageously reproduced here. 



"The one-horned Rhinoceros of India is not known to the natives 

 of this part of Sumatra ; and the single horns, which are occasionally 



* Add also the facial bones with small horns which I brought from Martaban. 



