1SG2.] A Memoir on the living Asiatic Species of Rhinoceros. 169 
while the rasped horn and the coagulated blood of the animal are 
considered remedies in various diseases, thev consider its effluvia as 
dangerous to the health.” 
P. S. No. 2. I am just able to insert the following extract from 
a letter, posted at Galle, from Mr. W. T. Blanford (now on his voy¬ 
age to Suez). He writes—“ It may be interesting to you at the 
present moment to know that the Rhinoceros of the Shan hills east 
of Ava is one-horned. The people at the capital assured me that 
two-horned Hhinoceroses were [there] unknown. The Rhinoceros 
of the southern portion of the Arakan hills is two-horned. I am 
not sure that the one inhabiting the higher portion of the hills on 
the Pegu side, and of which I once or twice saw tracks in the Hen- 
zada district, is identical. The tracks appeared to me to be larger [as 
those of Rs. sondaicus would be]. 
“I was told at Mandate of a wild Horse (or a wild Ass) on the 
mountains of Theinin in the Shan states east of Ava. I at first 
thought that only the Naemorlicedas [capricorns] was meant; as 
that animal is known in Pegu, but not in Upper Burma, as the ‘ wild 
Horse. 5 My informant, however, when I suggested this, said that 
he knew the ‘wild Goat 5 perfectly well; and that the animal he re¬ 
ferred to was a wild Horse, or perhaps, he added, rather a wild Ass 
than a wild Horse. Can this be the Kgang of Tibet r” 
P. S. No. 3. When I referred to the Eeephas sumateanus in 
p. 165 antea, I had not seen Prof. H. Schlegel’s paper on this ani¬ 
mal, a translation of which is published in the c Natural History 
Review’ for January, 1862. This I have chanced to light on, just 
in time to avail myself of it here. To Prof. Schlegel is due the 
identification of the Cinglialese Elephant with that of Sumatra: 
and, according to this naturalist,—“ It is well known that Sumatra 
is the only island of the Indian Archipelago, where Elephants are 
found wild. Magelhaens has informed us, that the Elephants which 
he saw in Borneo, were introduced there ; and that the animal is as 
little indigenous to that island as to Java.” From the information 
which I have received, however the statement of Magelhaens may 
hold true that the tame Elephants which he saw in Borneo were im¬ 
ported animals, it seems improbable that the race now wild upon 
that great island, and at this time sufficiently numerous in individuals 
