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loped than those of the female. It further differs from the four 
existing African species of two-horned Rhinoceros, not only by pos¬ 
sessing slight skin-folds, but also by having the bases of the horns 
separated by a considerable interval: Bell’s figure (in the ‘ Philoso¬ 
phical Transactions’ for 1793) represents, as I believe, their full deve¬ 
lopment in an adult female ; as shewn likewise in a (Tenasserim) 
stuffed head in the Society’s museum, already referred to : and over 
Bell’s figure of the skull of a male are represented in outline the horns 
of an ordinary male; not quite so fine, however, as those upon Col. 
Fytche’s specimen ; and that officer informs me that he has possess¬ 
ed a head with still finer horns, some five or six inches longer. 
Unfortunately, fine horns of Rn. stjmateanus are exceedingly diffi¬ 
cult to procure; as they are eagerty bought up at high prices by 
the China-men, who not only value them as medicines, but carve 
them into very elegant ornaments.* Still the horns which Dr. Salo¬ 
mon Muller figures, upon what lie calls an adult male, are small; and 
when I was at Pahpoon, amid the forests of the Yunzalin district of 
Upper Martaban, in November last, an animal of this species was 
killed within five miles of me ; but I did not learn of this in time, 
and was only able to procure the facial bones with the two horns. 
From their size and appearance I took them to be the horns of 
rather a juvenile male; but, on cleaning the bone, the nasals were 
found to be most completely and solidly anchylosed and united, and 
of the usual width in the male sex. The Karens obtained the ani¬ 
mal by means of a heavy falling-stake, such as they set for Tigers 
and other large game ;f and the carcase was completely hacked to 
pieces by them, and every edible portion of it devoured. 
The Rev. Dr. Mason remarks, in his work on ‘ The Natural Pro¬ 
ductions of Burmah’ (1850), that the hide of the two-horned Rhi¬ 
noceros of that region is “ smooth like a Buffalo’s.” This expression 
might mislead into the suspicion that the species is not exactly the 
same as that of Sumatra. Col. Fytche writes word, on this subject, 
# The anterior horn of Col. Fytche’s specimen is worth (I was told) about 
fifty rupees, or £5. 
I have seen a pair beautifully carved and polished, and set with the bases 
upward, in a black wooden frame similar to the stands on which Chinese metallic 
mirrors are mounted; and am sure now that they were the two horns of 
one individual of Eh. sumatbantjs, of about the same development as those 
upon Col. Fyfcche’s specimen. 
f Vide Andersson’s ‘ Lake Ngami,’ 2nd edit., p. 258, 
