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ceros is an exceedingly shy and timid animal, and Sir T. Stamford 

 Raffles remarks of it : — " They are not bold, and one of the 

 largest size has been seen to run away from a single wild dog." 

 (Can is rid Hans, a peculiar sj)ecies). Dr. Cantor heard of it in the 

 Malayan peninsula, as an inhabitant of Province Wellesley, fre- 

 quenting only the densest and most inaccessible jvmgles. He 

 also gives both R. indicus and R. sondaiciis as inhabiting the 

 Malayan peninsula, but did not procure specimens or other indicim, 

 and we doubt if he wrote on piersonal knowledge, or that he 

 had actually seen and compared the skulls of both species. It 

 may be added that C. sumatranus, like R. sondaiciis is found at all 

 elevations, but that the two do not usually inhabit the same 

 districts. 



In the course of personal investigations in the province of 

 British Burmah, the author of these addenda obtained the spoils 

 of both the lesser One-horned and of the Asiatic Two-horned 

 Rhinoceroses. Of the latter a full-gro-s^Ti male was staked within 

 a distance of not more than five miles of him, in Upper Mor- 

 tabon, but the intervening ground was impracticable, and he only 

 succeeded in obtaining the facial portion of the skulls, with the 

 two horns attached to the skin covering it. The small size of 

 the bones seemed to indicate a young animal, but when, after 

 maceration in water, the skin (with the horns attached to 

 it) was separated from the bone, the complete anchylosis of 

 the nasals proved that it was by no means immatui-e. The 

 thought occurred that the horns of a Rhinoceros, consisting 

 merely of agglutinated hairs, might, imder rare circumstances, be 

 shed in a mass, and subsequently renewed, which was the only 

 way that the small size of the horns upon this tolerably aged 

 animal could be accounted for. We have since learned that a 

 great One-horned Rhinoceros, at this time living in the Zoological 

 Garden at Moscow, did actualljr shed a horn, which is now in the 

 museum of that citj^, and that another has since grown in its 

 place. So the rudimentary frontal horn of the old female of the 

 same species now in the London Zoological Grardens was roughly 

 broken off on one occasion, and the blood flowed very profusely ; 

 but another hornlet has since been developed in its place, and 

 there can now be no doubt that the same occasionally happens 

 with wild animals. 



