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sented us with two skulls of R. sondaicus, of the broad and the 

 narrow types, and also with two of R. sumatranus, one wanting the 

 lower jaw, all from the Tenesserim provinces ; and the skulls of an old 

 male and of an adult female of R. sumatranus, — the skin of the head 

 of the latter, its axis vertebra, the long bones of the limbs {minus the 

 right fore limb and scapula), and the two scapulae and long bones of 

 the four limbs of the male, — were presented to the Society by 

 Mr. E. O'Reilly, then of Amherst, in 1847. In the ' Asiatic Researches ' 

 part of the head of a two-horned rhinoceros is recorded to have been 

 presented, and also the horn of a rhinoceros from Sumatra. The 

 latter was not in the Museum when I took charge of it in 1841, but 

 the former I think I recognise in a pair of united nasal bones, cer- 

 tainly belonging to this species, and in this case the specimen would 

 probably be from a Sumatran individual. Of R. sondaicus we have 

 also a fine series of skulls, one of them from Java, presented by the 

 Batavian Society ; the almost complete skeleton of a very nearly fall- 

 grown female, being considerably smaller than that of the female 

 R. indicus in the Medical College Museum, and the small stuffed 

 specimen to which I have before referred, the limb-bones of the 

 skeleton being considerably more robust than those of R. sumatranus. 

 For this skeleton, and those of elephant and camel, we are indebted 

 to a former Nawab Nazim of Bengal, and it is doubtless either from 

 Rajmahal or the Sundarbans, the skull being of the broad type, though 

 less strongly marked than some others, — in fact intermediate, though 

 scarcely quite midway intermediate. 



The following notice, by Sir T. Stamford Raffles, may be advan- 

 tageously introduced here : — " The one-horned rhinoceros of India is 

 not known to the natives of this part of Sumatra ; and the single horns, 

 which are occasionally procured, appear to be merely the longer horns 

 of the two-horned species separated from the smaller one. There is, 

 however, another animal in the forests of Sumatra never yet noticed, 

 which, in size and character, nearly resembles the rhinoceros, and 

 which is said to bear a single horn. This animal is distinguished by 

 having a narrow whitish belt encircling the body, and is known to the 

 natives of the interior by the name of Tenu. It has been seen at 

 several places, and the descriptions given of it by people, quite un- 

 connected with each other, coincide so nearly, that no doubt can be 

 entertained of the existence of such an animal. It is said to resemble 

 in some particulars the buffalo, and in others the badak or rhinoceros. 

 A specimen has not yet been procured, but I have several persons on 



