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and three representations of its skull ; and Sir T. Stamford Raffles 
remarks that “ Dr. Bell’s description and representation of this 
animal are extremely correct,” save that the folds of the skin 
“ are rather more distinct and defined than in Dr. Bell’s figure.” 
He adds that the natives of Sumatra “ assert that a third horn is 
sometimes met with ; and in one of the young specimens pro- 
cured, an indication of the kind was observed.” In Mr. C. J. 
Andersson’s work, entitled Lake N garni, the same is remarked of 
one or more of the ordinary Two-horned Rhinoceroses of Africa. 
This traveller writes : — I have met with persons who told me 
that they had killed Rhinoceroses with three horns ; but in all 
such cases (and they have been but few) the third or hindermost 
horn is so small as to be scarcely perceptible.” It is remarkable 
that Linnaeus referred to Rhinoceroses bearing a third horn,* and 
this seems to be a not unlikely character to have been developed 
more frequently in certain of the extinct species of Rhinocerotidce . 
A rudimentary second horn may, indeed, be seen upon the forehead 
of the large female of JR. indicus in the London Zoological Gardens ; 
and the alleged third horn referred to by Linnaeus, Raffles, and 
Andersson, we suspect to be merely a slight appearance of the 
same kind. 
The Asiatic Two-horned Rhinoceros has been supposed, until 
recently, to be peculiar to the island of Sumatra, as the smaller 
One-horned Rhinoceros is to that of Java ; but both of them 
are widely diffused over the Indo-Chinese countries, and through- 
out the Malayan peninsula, the smaller One-horned being like- 
wise found in Java, and the Asiatic Two-horned also in Borneo 
as well as in Sumatra. We have information of the two-horned 
species having been killed in one of the hill ranges imme- 
diately to the southward of the Brahmaputra river, so that 
its range may be said to extend northward into Assam (where, 
however, exceedingly rare), and a native female has recently 
been captured near the station of Chittegong, to the south-east 
of the Bengal Sundarbans, where R. sondaieus inhabits, and not 
the great One-horned Rhinoceros, which is so commonly brought 
alive to Europe, these captured animals being usually brought 
down from Assam. It is worthy of notice that the full-grown 
* To his description of JR. bicornis, it is added, “ Rarior est Rhinoceros tricornis, 
tertia turn cornu ex alteratro priorem excrescente.” (Gmelin’s edition, a.d. 1788.) 
