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overlooked, fhougli a rudiment of it would certainly liave been 

 apparent at the age represented. That figure has misled naturalists, 

 who have designated the animal as h Petit Rhinoceros de Java; 

 whereas Horsfield was informed that the individual figured by him 

 grew afterwards to a height of five feet seven inches, which must 

 surely be a mistake ! Four feet seven inches was the probable 

 measurement, even if taken round the curve of the body. A 

 sporting writer, describing one which he killed in the Garrow 

 hills, gives the height of it as four feet four inches. " It proved 

 to be a male, with a pretty large horn, and he was a very powerful 

 animal." Other Rhinoceroses (doubtless R. incUcus) killed in the 

 same tract of territory are described as exceeding six feet in 

 height, which is probably an exaggeration, or at least they must 

 have been measured round the curvature of the body as they lay 

 dead, which in so bulky a carcass would add some inches to the 

 alleged stature. As the smaller example (doubtless R. sondaicus) 

 had " a pretty long horn," we may be certain that he was full 

 grown, and may, accordingly, infer with some confidence that both 

 species inhabit the hill territory known as the Garrows, and 

 probably also the Khasya and Jhyntea hills, if not still farther 

 eastward. 



Dr. Jerdon remarks (in the excellent work already cited) that 

 " the R. sondaicus is found at present in the Bengal Sundarbans, and 

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

 the Mahanuddi river, and extending northwards towards Midas- 

 pore ; and also on the northern edge of the Rajmahal hills, near 

 the Ganges. Several have been killed quite recently," he adds, 

 "within a few miles of Calcutta." According to another writer, 

 they are or were "found in great numbers at the bottom of the 

 Rajmahal and 8ikri Gulli hills, but are seldom seen in the district 

 of Purneah. They live chiefly ujDon growing rice and vegetable 

 roots, the horn enabling them to procure vegetable matter embedded 

 in the earth." Having a horn suitable for the purpose, they may 

 thus use it ; but the nasal horn in this group of Pachyderms 

 varies so much in shape and direction, according to the species, 

 that it is not always suitable for such employment ; and it may 

 well be asked of what use is the strong horn of some of them, 

 which in the Keitloa Rhinoceros of Africa is sometimes as long as 

 the anterior one, while in some individuals of the Asiatic Two- 



