234 ehinoceeomdA 



there were no specimens in the Museum of the Asiatic Society, at the 

 time when he wrote his Memoir on this group. 



213. Rhinoceros sondaicus. 



Sol. Mtjller. — Blyth, Oat. p. 137. — S. javanicus, F. CtviEB, Mam- 

 mif., pi. 85-86. — Horsfield, Zool. Kes. Java, pi. 



The Lesser Indian Khinoceros. 



JDescr. — Much smaller than the preceding ; with one horn 5 two latge 

 incisors in each jaw; folds in the skin less prominent and fewer; hide 

 covered with square angular tubercles, much smaller than those of R. 

 indicus. 



Length 7 to 8 feet ; height 31 to 3|. 



As in the last, there is a short and broad type of skull, and a narrow 

 type, the broad type being the kind found in our province. Length of the 

 skull of one 1| feet ; height of condyle of lower jaw 9 inches. The fold 

 at the setting on of the head, so prominent in Indicus, is at most but 

 indicated in Sondaicus. 



The lesser rhinoceros is found at present in the Bengal Sunderbuna, 

 and a very few individuals are stated to occur in the forest tract along the 

 Mahanuddy river, and extending northwards towards Midnapore ; and 

 also on the northern edge o f the Rajmaha l hills near the Ranges. It 

 occurs also more abundantly in Burmah, and thence through the Malayan 

 peninsula to Java and Borneo. Several have been killed quite recently 

 within a few miles of Calcutta. 



One of these species formerly existed on the banks of the Indus, where 

 it was hunted by the Emperor Baber.^; Individuals of this species are not 

 unfrequently taken about the country as a show. 



The only other Asiatic rhinoceros is the two-homed one. Rhinoceros suma- 

 tranus, which has been shot as high as north latitude 23° or so, near Sando- 

 way, and is suspected by Blyth to extend as far north as Assam. Though 

 with two horns, it is quite of the same type as the one-homed species, 

 having strong incisors, and not like the African two-homed species, which 

 have deciduous incisors. It is the most common rhinoceros in the Indo- 

 Chinese territories, extending to Sumatra only among the islands. It 

 appears ft-om information received by Blyth, that the horns of this species 



