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over 21J inches shot by Lord Curzon in the Nepal Terai. His Highness of Cooch 
Behar has shot and been at the shooting of a great many rhino, but his best 
record is about 16 inches. The horn of the huge specimen in the Indian 
Museum, Calcutta, is 13 inches. Mr. W. H. R. Doxat gives me the following 
dimensions of a specimen he got in Assam in 1903 : Length of horn (front 
curve) 13 ins. ; circumference at base 214 ins. ; weight 3 lbs. 2 oz. ; circum¬ 
ference of foot 33 inches. 
THE SMALLER ONE-HORNED RHINOCEROS. 
Rhinoceros Sondaicvs .— Native names : Gainra , Hind. ; Gondo Beng.; 
Kundo , Naga ; J\yeng, Burma. 
Habitat.— The Sunderbunds, Eastern Bengal, from Assam throughout 
Burma and the Malay Peninsula. 
: Period of gestation. —Same as R. Jndicus . 
Description. —Skin nearly naked, not tubercular, the epidermis is divided by 
cracks into small scale-like discs. The surface of the body is divided into 
shields by folds, but the neck folds are only slightly developed. The horn is 
small and always wanting in the female. Colour, dusky grey throughout. It 
inhabits tree forests and has been found at considerable elevations in Burma. 
It is a timid and inoffensive animal. 
