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A two-horned Rhinoceros is stated by the Malays to inhabit, but rare- 

 ly to leave, the densest jungle. The Museum of the Asiatic Society 

 possesses a skull, and also a head with the skin on, of Rhinoceros 

 Sumatranus, Raffles, from the Tenasserim Provinces, in which locality 

 the existence of the species has been recorded by Dr. Heifer and 

 Mr. Blyth. This fact would seem to corroborate the statement of 

 the Malays, and the habitat of Rhinoceros Sumatranus may reasonably 

 be expected to be hereafter found to extend over the neighbouring Malayan 

 Peninsula. As such, it has indeed been enumerated by Capt. Begbie, 

 the author of " Malayan Peninsula," fyc, Madras, 1834. In Lieut. 

 Col. Low's History of Tenasserim (Journal Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 3. 

 1836,) is figured the head of a young Rhinoceros, which, from the con- 

 siderable protuberance between the eyes, appears to represent a two- 

 horned, probably the present, species. 



Gen. — Tapirus, Linne. 



Tapirus malayanus, Raffles. 



Syn. — Tapirus malayanus, apud Horsfield. 



Tapirus indicus, Fred. Cuvier. 



Tapirus sumatranus, Gray. 



Me des Chinois, Remusat, young ? apud Gray : List. 



Tapirus bicolor, Wagner, apud Schinz. 



" Badak," " Kuda Ayer," " Tennu" of the Malays of the Penin- 

 sula. 

 Hab. — Malayan Peninsula. 



Sumatra, Borneo. 

 The body of a newborn male, found in Province Wellesley in August 

 1844, was shortly after its death carried over to Pinang. As described 

 by Colonel Farquhar, it was of a beautiful black velvet colour, with purple 

 reflections, with numerous small, and other larger, irregular spots on 

 the body, arranged in longitudinal stripes, above of a rich gamboge, 

 beneath and on the inner side of the extremities, paler yellow. The 

 under-lip was white. The shrivelled remains of the black funiculus 

 umbilicalis were upwards of four inches in length. The fur very short, 

 dense, and velvety. The separate hairs, of either of the two prevailing 

 colours, slightly curly. 



