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overlooked, though, a rudiment of it would certainly have been 5 
apparent at the age represented. That figure has misled naturalists, 
who have designated the animal as le Petit Rhinoceros de Java; { 
whereas Horsfield was informed that the individual figured by him 
grew afterwards to a height of five feet seven inches, which must 
surely he a mistake ! Four feet seven inches was the probable 
measurement, even if taken round the curve of the body. A 
sporting writer, describing one which he killed in the Garrow 
hills, gives the height of it as four feet four inches. “ It proved 
to be a male, with a pretty large horn, and he was a very powerful 
animal.” Other Rhinoceroses (doubtless R. indicus ) killed in the 
same tract of territory are described as exceeding six feet in 
height, which is probably an exaggeration, or at least they must 
have been measured round the curvature of the body as they lay i 
dead, which in so bulky a carcass would add some inches to the 
alleged stature. As the smaller example (doubtless R. sondaicus) \ 
had “ a pretty long horn,” we may be certain that he was full j 
grown, and may, accordingly, infer with some confidence that both 
species inhabit the hill territory known as the Garrows, and 
probably also the Khasya and Jhyntea hills, if not still farther 
eastward. 
Dr. Jerdon remarks (in the excellent work already cited) that 
“ the R. sondaicus is found at present in the Bengal Sundarbans, and 
a very few individuals are stated to occur in the forest tract along l 
the Mahanuddi river, and extending northwards towards Midas- j 
pore ; and also on the northern edge of the Rajmahal hills, near | 
the Ganges. Several have been killed quite recently,” he adds, 
“ within a few miles of Calcutta.” According to another writer, | 
they are or were “ found in great numbers at the bottom of the 
Rajmahal and Sikri Gulli hills, but are seldom seen in the district 
of Purneah. They live chiefly upon growing rice and vegetable 
roots, the horn enabling them to procure vegetable matter embedded 
in the earth.” Having a horn suitable for the purpose, they may 
thus use it ; but the nasal horn in this group of Pachyderms | 
varies so much in shape and direction, according to the species, 
that it is not always suitable for such employment ; and it may 1 
well be asked of what use is the strong horn of some of them, 
which in the Keitloa Rhinoceros of Africa is sometimes as long as 
the anterior one, while in some individuals of the Asiatic Two- 
