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nasals were found to be most completely and solidly anchylosed and 

 united, and of the usual width in the male sex. The Karens obtained 

 the animal by means of a heavy falling-stake, such as they set for 

 tigers and other large game, and the carcase was completely hacked 

 to pieces by them, and every edible portion of it devoured. 



The Rev. Dr. Mason, in his work on ( The Natural Productions of 

 Burmab,' remarks that the hide of the two-horned rhinoceros of that 

 region is smooth like a buffalo's. This expression might mislead into 

 the suspicion that the species is not exactly the same as that of 

 Sumatra. Col. Fytche writes word, on this subject, "I have myself 

 shot three rhinoceroses; one single -horned, on the borders of Asam,* 

 and the other two not far from Bassein, in the Yomatoung range 

 separating Pegu from Arakan. I saw the skin of the one whose skull 

 you have got,f and it was exactly, in every respect, like the one I shot 

 in Asam. The two-horned fellows I shot had smooth skins, as stated 

 by Mason ; they were, however, very thick, and there were slight 

 rumples or folds about the neck and shoulders, 1 remember, but 

 nothing to be compared in size to the mailed armour of the single- 

 horned species." In Burma, people distinguish only a one-horned 

 kind and a two-horned kind ; and though the skull from Tavoy Point 

 referred to is very nearly adult and of fair size, Col. Fytche thought it 

 to be that of a small and immature animal, as compared with the 

 huge R. indicus that he killed in Asam. I must frankly confess that 

 I have only quite recently discriminated the two one-horned species, 

 fancying, as a matter of course, that the numerous skulls of single- 

 horned rhinoceroses in the Society's Museum, from the Bengal Sun- 

 darbans, &c, especially of the broad-faced type, were necessarily of 

 the hitherto-reputed sole Indian species. F. Cuvier's figure of R. son- 

 daicus is that of a very young animal, and, with those of Horsfield and 

 S. Miiller, conveys the appearance of a more evenly tessellated hide 

 than I remember to have seen in any living continental example. 

 I have, however, been comparing our stuffed Sundarban example (less 

 than half-grown) w T ith the figure of adult R. indicus in the 1 Menagerie 

 du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle,' and with the figures of R. sondaicus 

 by S. Miiller and others, and perceive that it must be referred to the 

 latter and not to the former. The tubercles of the hide are much 

 smaller than in R. indicus ; and a marked difference between the two 



* R. indicus, of course. 



f That of R. sondaicus, of the narrow type, shot by my friend Dr. Hook, of Tavoy, 

 near Tavoy Point, where there is a small isolated colony of the species. 



