1802.] A Memoir on the living Asiatic Species of Rhinoceros. 169 



while the rasped horn and the coagulated blood of the animal are 

 considered remedies in various diseases, they consider its effluvia as 

 dangerous to the health." 



P. 8. No. 2. I am just able to insert the following extract from 

 a letter, posted at Galle, from Mr. W. T. Blanford (now on his voy- 

 age to Suez). He writes — " It may be interesting to you at the 

 present moment to know that the Rhinoceros of the Shan hills east 

 of Ava is one-horned. The people at the capital assured me that 

 two-horned Rhinoceroses were [there] unknown. The Rhinoceros 

 of the southern portion of the Arakan hills is two-horned. I am 

 not sure that the one inhabiting the higher portion of the hills on 

 the Pegu side, and of which I once or twice saw tracks in the Hen- 

 zada district, is identical. The tracks appeared to me to be larger [as 

 those of Eh. sokdaicus would be]. 



"I was told at Mandale of a wild Horse (or a wild Ass) on the 

 mountains of Theiniu in the Shan states east of Ava. I at first 

 thought that only the Noemorhcedus [capricoenis] was meant ; as 

 that animal is known in Pegu, but not in Upper Burma, as the ' wild 

 Horse.' My informant, however, when I suggested this, said that 

 he knew the ' wild Goat' perfectly well ; and that the animal he re- 

 ferred to was a wild Horse, or perhaps, he added, rather a wild Ass 

 than a wild Horse. Can this be the Kyang of Tibet ?" 



P. S. No. 3. When I referred to the Elephas sumatranus in 

 p. 165 antea, I had not seen Prof. PI. Schlegel's paper on this ani- 

 mal, a translation of which is published in the ' Natural History 

 Review' for January, 1862. This I have chanced to light on, just 

 in time to avail myself of it here. To Prof. Schlegel is clue the 

 identification of the Cinghalese Elephant with that of Sumatra: 

 and, according to this naturalist, — " It is well known that Sumatra 

 is the only island of the Indian Archipelago, where Elephants are 

 found wild. Magelhaens has informed us, that the Elephants which 

 he saw in Borneo, were introduced there ; and that the animal is as 

 little indigenous to that island as to Java." From the information 

 which I have received, however the statement of Magelhaens may 

 hold true that the tame Elephants which he saw in Borneo were im- 

 ported animals, it seems improbable that the race now wild upon 

 that great island, and at this time sufficiently numerous in individuals 



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