18G2.] On some 'Baetro-Buddhist Belies from JRaioal Pindi. 175 
XLII (A. D. 1742-3), we read of “many Gentlemen, who had seen 
those Creatures in Persia , and other Parts of the East.’* Can this refer¬ 
ence to Persia be a mistake ? Or were such animals, at little more 
than a century ago, occasionally conveyed (when young) from the 
Indus to the Persian Gulf ? Rather than from the eastward of Cape 
Comorin ? Were it not for the locality assigned, I should have been 
inclined to suspect that Parsons’s figures were intended for Rh. sou - - 
daicijs, from the somewhat greater elevation of the limbs, the more 
evenly (though too coarsely) tuberculated hide, and especially the de¬ 
lineation of the nape region, as compared with the figures by Ed¬ 
wards, Buffon, and Cuvier and Geoffroy. At the same time, I have 
already noticed, that the hide of the Lesser One-horned Rhinoceros 
of Bengal is by no means so neatly tessellated in appearance as is 
shewn by Dr. S. Muller’s figure of the Javanese Rhinoceros. 
I find that I was wrong, in p. 163 antea } in stating that our Rhi¬ 
noceros-skeleton was presented by a late Nawiib Nazim of Bengal. 
Three skeletons, those of Elephant, Camel, and Tiger (the last now 
replaced by a much finer one), were presented in 1839, by His late 
Majesty of Oudh, Nussir-ud-Dowlah, J. A . S. VIII, 688. For the 
history of our Rhinoceros-skeleton, vide J. A. S . Ill, 142, IX, 518, X, 
928. The animal was killed in the Jessore district. 
On some Bactro-B uddkist Relics from Rdwal Pindi.—Py Babu 
R/jendbalala Mitba. 
In February, 1861, Capt, Stubbs, of the Artillery, forwarded to the 
Asiatic Society, through Col. J. Abbott, draughts of certain interest¬ 
ing relics found in a field 23 miles to the north-west of Rawal Pin¬ 
di, and between the villages of Shah ke Deri and Osman Khatur. 
The place is said to be rocky and covered for many miles with frag¬ 
ments of dressed stones and ruined buildings which have, in some 
spots, formed mounds of considerable height, overgrown with jungle. 
Traces remain of some of the buildings having been made of quar¬ 
ried stones with lime mortar. Copper coins and fragments of statuary 
are also met with. The relics under notice were exhumed by two 
zemindars of the place while digging among some mounds in quest 
of treasure. They had been evidently deposited in the centre of a 
masonry building, the foundation of which was met with at the 
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