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I found these occasionally of great depth and extent.” In Bengal, 
I believe that the identical species is found in the Sundarbans, and 
also (formerly, at least,) in the Rajmahal hills at all elevations; but 
it has hitherto been universally mistaken for Rii. indicus, a species 
which may inhabit the same localities,—only that now remains to be 
ascertained, as also if Eh. sondatctjs extends its range to the region 
tenanted by the other. All evidence at present attainable points to 
the opposite conclusion. 
So long ago as in 1838, the late Dr. Heifer remarked that— <c The 
Tenasserini provinces seem to be a convenient place for this genus; 
for I dare to pronounce almost positively,” he then wrote, “ that the 
three known Asiatic species occur within their range. The Eh. in¬ 
dict! s being found in the northern part of these provinces, in that 
high range bordering on Zimmay called the Elephant-tail mountain ; 
the Eh. sondaicus, on the contrary, occupies the southernmost parts ; 
while the two-horned Eh. stjmatrantjs is to be found through¬ 
out the extent of the territories from the 17° to the 10° of latitude. 
In character the Eh. sondaictjs seems to be the mildest, and can be 
easily domesticated ; the powerful Indian Rhinoceros is the shyest; 
and the double-horned is the wildest.” (Ji A. S. VII, 861.) Ma¬ 
son (in 1850) remarked that “ the common single-horned Rhinoceros 
[sondatctjs] is very abundant. The double-horned is not uncom¬ 
mon in the southern provincesand then he alludes to the alleged 
« fire-eater 1 of the Burmans, supposing that to be sondaicus, as dis- 
tingished from “the common single-horned” kind, which he thought 
was INDICTJS. Very decidedly, I consider that the alleged existence 
of the great sub-Himalayan indtcus in Bengal, the Indo-Chinese 
region, and Malayan peninsula, remains to be proved; the broad and 
narrow types of skull of sondaiotjs having, I suspect, been mistaken 
for indicds and sondaious respectively. That the real species de¬ 
noted by these names was so early discriminated, I opine is mainly 
due to the accident of sondaictts having been first obtained in 
Java, which induced the suspicion of its being probably different 
from the only then recognised continental species, inhabiting Upper 
India; likewise to the accident of the Paris museum containing a 
particularly fine skull of the true indicus, which (as before remark¬ 
ed) is probably that of the individual figured in the Menagerie du 
Museum d' Hist. Nat. 
