170 A Memoir on the living Asiatic Species of Rhinoceros. [No. 2, 
for their ivory to he an article of commerce, can have descended from 
on imported stock. My principal informant on the subject, to whom 
I have applied for what further information he may be able to 
give me, is Capt. Mottley (at present of Akyab), brother of the na¬ 
turalist whose name is associated with that of the Rev. Mr. Dillwyn 
in Messrs. Mottley and Dillwyn’s * Fauna of Labuan’ (and who pe¬ 
rished with his family in the massacre at Banjermassing). Capt. 
Mottley was long associated with his late brother, as he mentioned 
to me in conversation, when I was at Akyab. In a paper on Borneo 
published in the ‘ Singapore Chronicle’ for December, 1824 (and re¬ 
printed in Moor’s ‘ Notices of the Indian Archipelago’), we are told 
that—“ Of land animals, there exist the Elephant, the Rhinoceros, 
a species of Leopard [Felis macrocelis] —but not the royal Tiger,” 
&c. &c. “ The first three animals, it is singular enough, are found 
only in a single corner of this vast island, its northern peninsular 
extremity, in the districts of Ungsang and Paitan. # # The Ox 
[Bos sondaicus], under the name of Tambadao , is a native of the 
forests of Borneo ; and so is the Hog” [Sus barbattjs]. In a sketch 
of Borneo, or Pulo Kdldmantan (the Malayan name of the entire 
island, as distinguished from its province of Borneo ), communicated 
by J. Hunt, Esq., in 1812, to Sir T. S. Raffles, then Lieut.-Governor 
of Java, (and also reprinted in Moor’s ‘Notices of the Indian Archi¬ 
pelago,’) it is stated that—“ The Elephant was said to be seen about 
Cape Unsing, where several teeth are still found; but it is conceived 
that this animal is extinct on the island.” These are the only print¬ 
ed notices that I can at present reeal to mind, relative to the exist¬ 
ence of Elephants in Borneo. 
The only species of Elephant, which, according to our present 
knowledge, is known to inhabit India proper—as distinguished from 
Indo-China and Malasia (or Malay ana),—Prof. Schlegel designates 
as the “ so-called Elephas indices and he remarks, that, so far 
as he (i could discover, the greater number of Elephants brought to 
Europe from continental India, have been obtained from Bengal. It 
remains therefore a question,” he adds, “ whether all the Elephants 
of continental India belong really to one species, or whether, in 
these widely extended regions, there may not be different species of 
Elephants, and the Elephant of trans-Gangetic India may not per¬ 
haps belong to E. stjmatranes. A similar question may be asked 
