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Mammals of Burma. 



[Ho. 1, 



remarks Mason, "the Tapir is by no means uncommon in the interior of 

 Tavoy and Mergui provinces ; I have frequently come upon its recent foot- 

 marks, but it avoids the inhabited parts of the country. It has never been 

 heard of north of the valley of the Tavoy river.' ' 



Fam. RJiinoceratidse . 



Rhinoceroses. 



125. Khutocekos sokdaicus (J. 213). 

 Rhinoceros sondaicus, Cuvier ; Horsfield, Zool. Res. in Java ; S. Muller, Verhand. t. 33 ; 

 R. nasalis, R. stenorhynchus, et R. floweri, Gray, apud Busk, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 416. 

 Khyen-hseu, Mason. 



The Lesser One-horned Rhinoceros. So far as I have been able to 

 satisfy myself, this is the only single-horned Ehinoceros of the Indo-Chinese 

 and Malayan countries, its range of distribution extending northward to the 

 Garo hills, where it co-exists with the large R. indicus, and to eastern and 

 Lower Bengal. It would appear to be the only Ehinoceros that inhabits the 

 Sundarbans, occurring within a few miles of Calcutta; and yet I know of 

 but one instance of its having been brought to Europe alive,** and then it was 

 not recognized as differing from R. indicus, which latter is not uncommonly 

 brought down the Brahmaputra from Assam, and sent to Europe from 

 Calcutta. There is reason, also, to believe that R. sondaicus is the species 

 which was formerly hunted by the Moghul Emperor Baber on the banks 

 of the Indus. Southward it inhabits the Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, Java, 

 and Borneo (?vide Busk, he. cit.). It is about a third smaller thani?. indicus, 

 from which it is readily distinguished by having the tubercles of the hide 

 uniformly of the same small size, and also by having a fold or plait of the 

 skin crossing the nape, in addition to that behind the shoulder-blades. In 

 R. indicus the corresponding fold does not thus meet its opposite, but curves 

 backward to join — or nearly so in some individuals — the one posterior to the 

 shoulders. A fine living male, before referred to, was exhibited for some 

 years about Great Britain, and was finally deposited in the Liverpool Zoo- 

 logical Gardens, where it died, and its preserved skeleton is now in the 

 anatomical museum of Guy's Hospital, Southwark. Two passable figures 

 of it from life are given in the " Naturalists' Library," where it is mistaken 

 for the huge R. indicus. 



* [Since Mr. Blyth wrote this paper, another example of this species is now alive in the 

 Zoological Society's Garden.— J. A.] 



