152 A Memoir on the living Asiatic Species of Rhinoceros. [No. 2, 
and he moreover notices that “ a two-horned Rhinoceros is stated by 
the Malays to inhabit, but rarely to leave, the densest jungle.” As 
this animal is common in parts of Burma, as well as in Sumatra, it 
may be confidently predicated to inhabit the intervening region of the 
Malayan peninsula: but the more common and ordinary species of 
the peninsula would appear to be Iin. sondaicus ; and a friend who 
has hilled as many as nine individuals in the southern half of that 
region, to whom I shewed several skulls of ijtdicus and of sondaious, 
is positive that all which he saw there were of the lesser one-horned 
species, as distinguished from the larger. The former, as before re¬ 
marked, inhabits the islands of Java and Borneo in the archipelago, 
but not Sumatra whereas the two-horned species, as an insular 
animal, appears to be peculiar to Sumatra.f In the volume on Ele¬ 
phants, in Sir W. Jardine’s 1 Naturalist’s Library,’ the lesser 
one-horned Rhinoceros is erroneously styled “ the one-horned Suma¬ 
tran Rhinocerosa mistake which might have been rectified by 
reference to Sir T. St. Rafiles’s paper in the 13th Yol. of the 1 Trans¬ 
actions of the Linnsean Society,’ which indeed is cited by the com¬ 
piler.;!: 
The vernacular topical names of Javan and Sumatran Rhinoceroses 
had now better be disused ; seeing that both species have an exten¬ 
sive range of distribution on the mainland of S. E. Asia; the latter 
should rather be denominated ‘ the Asiatic two-horned Rhinoceros ;* 
and the two others ‘ the Great one-horned’ and the ‘ Lesser 
one-horned ;’ unless, indeed, the alleged discovery should be con¬ 
firmed of the existence of a one-horned species in inter-tropical Africa, 
in addition to the lour two-horned species which are now recognised 
* The range of Bos sondaicus is similar; excepting that this animal does 
not extend to Bengal, like Ruinocekos sondaicus. 
t As also the Malayan Tapir, the continental range of which extends north¬ 
ward to the Tenasserim provinces of Tavoy and Mergui. 
% The adult male Rhinoceros which lived for many years in the gardens of the 
Zoological Society, Regent’s Park, London, (and for which the considerable sum of 
£1000 was paid,) is stated to have been captured in Arakan ; but he was not nearly 
so large as several that I have since seen in India ; and, therefore, I entertain an 
exceedingly strong suspicion that lie was no other than sondaicus. His bones 
have doubtless been preserved. The two Asiatic one-horned species, indeed, resem¬ 
ble each other a great deal more nearly, in external appearance, than the published 
figures of them would lead to suppose. Certainly no sportsman or ordinary 
observer would distinguish them apart, unless his attention had been specially 
called to the subject. The best figure I know of adult Ret. indicus is that pub¬ 
lished by Cuvier and Geoffroy, in the Menagerie clu Museum d’Eist . Nat. 
