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horned species, the fore-horn is so very much elongated and curves 

 so far backward that it is diificult to imagine how it coidd he put 

 to any service. An experienced sporting writer remarks of one of 

 the single-horned species, that " it is a mistake to suppose that the 

 horn is their most formidable weapon. I thought so myself at one 

 time," he adds, " but have long been satisfied that it is merely 

 used in defence, and not as an instrmnent of offence. It is with 

 their cuttin g- teeth " (lower canines) "that they wound so des- 

 perately. I killed a large male," this writer asserts, "which was 

 cut and slashed all over its body with fighting ; the wounds were 

 all fresh, and as cleanly made as if they had been done with a razor 

 — the horn coidd not have been used here. Another one he had 

 wounded stood, and out of pure rage cut at the jungle right and 

 left, exactly as a Boar uses his tusks. A medical friend had a 

 man, who was sauntering through the forest, actually disembowelled 

 by a Rhinoceros. He examined the wound inimediatelj'', and I 

 heard him say afterwards that if it had been done with the sharpest 

 instrument, it could not have been cleaner cut. Such, then, could 

 not have been done with the horn." * 



In Java the M. sondaicus is reputed to be rather a timid animal ; 

 but an instance is related of one attacking a sailor's watering party 

 in that island ; f and the full-grown Garrow E,hinoceros before men- 

 tioned (as standing four feet five inches in height) had killed a man 

 and a boy some days before he was shot. This smaller One-horned 

 Rhinoceros appeares to be diffused more or less abundantly over 

 the whole Indo-Chinese region (or the countries lying eastward 

 of the Bay of Bengal), and through the Malayan peninsida, but it 

 does not appear to inhabit Svmiatra. In Java, according to Pro- 

 fessor Eeinhardt, it is " found everywhere in the most elevated 

 regions, ascending with an astonishing swiftness even to the 

 highest tops of the mountains." Dr. Horsfield also notices that 

 " it prefers high situations, but is not limited to a particular region 

 or climate, its range extending from the limit of the ocean to the 

 summits of movmtains of considerable elevation. Its retreats are 

 discovered by deeply excavated passages, which it forms along 

 the declivities of mountains and hills. I foimd these occasionally 

 of great depth and extent." Of one of the single-horned species 

 of this genus, an observer remarks, " It is surprising to see how 



* Bengal Sportinrj Magazine, 1S36, part ii., p. 158. t Zoologist, p. 1328. 



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