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and three representations of its skull ; and Sir T. Stamford Raffles 

 remarks that "Dr. Bell's description and representation of this 

 animal are extremely correct," save that the folds of the skin 

 " are rather more distinct and defined than in Dr. Bell's figure." 

 He adds that the natives of Simiatra " assert that a third horn is 

 sometimes met with ; and in one of the young specimens pro- 

 cured, an indication of the kind was observed." In Mr. C. J. 

 Andersson's work, entitled Lake Ngi'uni, the same is remarked of 

 one or more of the ordinary Two-horned Rhinoceroses of Africa. 

 This traveller writes : — " I have met with persons who told me 

 that they had killed Rhinoceroses with three horns ; but in aU 

 such cases (and they have been but few) the third or hindermost 

 horn is so small as to be scarcely perceptible." It is remarkable 

 that Linnasus referred to Rhinoceroses bearing a third horn,* and 

 this seems to be a not vm.likely character to have been develojDed 

 more frequently in certain of the extinct species of Rhinocerotidce. 

 A rudimentary second horn may, indeed, be seen upon the forehead 

 of the large female of R. iiidiciis in the London Zoological Gardens ; 

 and the alleged third horn referred to by Linnaeus, Raffles, and 

 Andersson, we suspect to be merely a slight appearance of the 

 sumo kind. 



The Asiatic Two-horned Rhinoceros has been supposed, until 

 recently, to be peculiar to the island of Siunatra, as the smaller 

 <-)ne-horned Rhinoceros is to that of Java ; but both of them 

 are widely diffused over the Indo-Chinese coimtries, and through- 

 out the Malayan peninsula, the smaller One-horned being like- 

 wise found in Java, and the Asiatic Two-horned also in Borneo 

 as well as in Siunatra. We have information of the two-horned 

 species having been killed in one of the hill ranges imme- 

 diately to the southward of the Brahmaputra river, so that 

 its range may be said to extend northward into Assam (where, 

 however, exceedingly rare), and a native female has recently 

 been captured near the station of Chittegong, to the south-east 

 of the Bengal Sundarbans, where R. sondaicus inhabits, and not 

 the great One-horned Rhinoceros, which is so commonly brought 

 alive to Europe, these captured animals being usually brought 

 down from Assam. It is worthy of notice that the full-grown 



*^ To his dcsciiption of R. hieornis, it is added, " liarior est Rhinoceros trioomis, 

 tertia turn cornu ox alteratro priorem excrescentc." (Gmclin's edition, a.d. 1788.) 



