862,] A Memoir on the living Asiatic species of Rhinoceros. 151 
A Memoir on the living Asiatic species of Rhinoceros.—JBp 
.Edward Blyth. 
Among the investigations to which I devoted particular attention 
during my late rambles in Burma, was the endeavour to corroborate 
and confirm the statement of Heifer and others, that the three 
known Asiatic species of Bhinoceros inhabited that region. In this 
I succeeded, so far as the two insular species (viz. the one-horned 
Eh. sohdaicus and the two-horned Eh. sum ate anus) are con¬ 
cerned ; for these prove to be the ordinary Eliinoceroses of the Indo- 
Chinese region and continuous Malayan peninsula; and I have rea¬ 
son now to believe that they are the only Eliinoceroses of that great 
range of territory; the huge Eh. ihdicus (so far as I can discover) 
appearing to be peculiar to the tarai region at the foot of the Hima¬ 
layas and valley of the Brahmaputra (or province of Asam) ; the 
Ehinoceros still common in the eastern Sundarbans, and also of the 
Eajmahal hills in Bengal (where fast verging on extirpation), being 
identical with that of Java and Borneo, in the great oriental archi¬ 
pelago ; while the Asiatic two-horned species (Eh. stjmatrahtjs) 
appears to be more common than the lesser one-horned (Eh. son- 
daictts) in the Indo-Chinese territories,—this animal extending north¬ 
ward to the Ya-ma-doung range of mountains which separates Arakan 
from Pegu, where Col. Yule observed it as high as the latitude of 
Bamri island, and I have been assured by Major Eipley that one was 
killed not long ago in the vicinity of Sandoway. What the parti¬ 
cular species may have been that was hunted by the Mogul Emperor 
Baber on the banks of the Indus cannot now be ascertained ; unless, 
indeed, some bones of it may yet be recovered from the alluvium of 
that river. It is remarkable that he compares its bowels to those 
of a Horse ! A species is also stated by Duhalde to inhabit the 
province of Quang-si in China, in lat. 15°. This is much more likely 
to prove either Eh. sohdaicijs or Eh. sxjmatrahds, than the large 
Eh. ihdichs. 
It is true that the late Hr. Theodore Cantor, in his 1 Catalogue of 
the mammalia of the Malayan peninsula’ (J. A. S. XV, 263), asserts 
that both Eh. ikdicus and Eh. sondaicus “seem to be numerous” 
there ; but he does not mention that he had examined specimens j 
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