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the cages of the tiger and leopard, but not breaking them so as to 

 allow the animals to escape. Dashing into the museum tent, it 

 broke all the curiosities, frightened 'all the people in the neigh- 

 bourhood, and rushed out through the canvas into the street, 

 finally stopping in a vacant house, the door of which stood open. 

 Here the men succeeded in capturing the animal and getting it 

 into a cage. The damage to the show was about 3000 dollars." 



The Javan Bhinoceros (B. Javanicus). This is a much smaller 

 animal than the Indian species. Its head and limbs are longer 

 and more slender in their proportions, and the folds of the skin are 

 fewer and are not so prominent. The hide is not so thickly 

 covered with tubercles, and they are proportionately smaller in 

 diameter, being square and angular. In length this animal is 

 between seven and eight feet, and in height about three and a half 

 to three and three-quarters. 



Jerdon calls it the lesser Indian rhinoceros, and says it is found 

 in the Bengal Sunderbunds, and a 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 

 of the Kajmahal hills near the Ganges. It occurs also more 

 abundantly in Burmah, and thence, through the Malayan penin- 

 sula, to Java and Borneo. Several have, he states, been killed 

 quite recently within a few miles of Calcutta. 



Animals of this species are frequently to be seen in India, taken 

 about the country as a show. In 1874 the Zoological Society 

 succeeded in procuring a specimen, and their visitors have ever 

 since had the opportunity of studying the difference between the 

 two varieties. 



In many places this animal is gregarious. Dr. Horsfield ® states 

 that it is not limited to a particular region or climate, but that its 

 range extends from the level of the ocean to the summit of moun- 

 tains of considerable elevation. He noticed it on Tangung, near 

 the confines of the southern ocean, in the districts of the native 

 princes, and on the summit of the high peaks of the Priangan 

 regencies. It is reported to prefer high situations. Dr. Horsfield, 

 while residing at Surakarta, the capital of the Javanese Empire, had 



^ " Zoological Eesearch.es in Java." 



