374 A Memoir on the living Asiatic Species of Rhinoceros. [No. 2, 
from Dec. 1857 to April 1859. It may be assumed,” continues Col. . 
Phayre, " that so many of these powerful animals were never before, 
whether in ancient or modern times, conveyed across sea, or other¬ 
wise from one country to another, in the short period of seventeen 
months, whether for military or other objects.” And of this great 
number, it may be added, that not a single one will probably have 
propagated its race after its capture ! A young Elephant was born, 
I learned, on its voyage from Moulmein to Madras, survived the 
voyage, and was alive a year or more afterwards, if not at the present 
time, as is most probably the case. 
On application to the Military Commissariat Office, I am obliging¬ 
ly informed that—“ The following is an account of the Elephants 
received in Calcutta from Moulmein and Rangoon. 
el Moulmein. Rangoon. 
11 1857 . 
385S . 
. 20 
. 422 
50 
34 
1S59 .. 
. 800 
84 
712 
742 
“Tn all .. 
* 
.826 
“I do not know,” continues my informant, “ how many more were 
landed in the Madras Presidency. 
“ No Elephants were received at Calcutta from Ceylon.” 
The accuracy of the foregoing statement may be fully relied on. 
P. S. No. 4. The genera Elephas and Rhinoceros were placed by 
Linnseus (Gmelin’s edit., A. D. 1788,) in his order JBruta; while he as¬ 
sociated the Horse with the Hog and the Hippopotamus in his order 
JBellua. It is remarkable, too, that he refers to Rhinoceroses bearing a 
third horn.* Baber, it has been remarked, hunted some species of Rhi¬ 
noceros on the banks of the Indus ; and in Dr. Parsons’s description of a 
Rhinoceros procured when young by “ Humphrey Cole, Esq ; being 
Chief of the Factory of Patna in Bengal,” in the Phil. Trans., Vol. 
* To his description of Rh. licorni.s, it is added---" Rarior est Rhinoceros 
tricornis , teriio turn cornu ex alteruiro priorum excrescentc.” 
