A new Asiatic rhinoceros

Popular Science Review. Proceedings of the British Association Meeting (no date) Dr Sclater read a peper on a 'New Asiatic Rhinoceros' with remarks on the recent species of the genus. On 14 February 1872, the Zoo in London received a female two-horned rhino, which had been captured near Chittagong 4 years previously. this animal had been referred to Rhinoceros sumatrensis Cuvier by the author and other writers, that being the only species of the two-horned section of rhinoceros hitherto recognised by naturalists. The acquisition of the female of the veritable R. sumatrensis from Malacca had enabled the author, after comparison, to conclude that the first mentioned specimen belongedto a different species, which he proposed to call Rhinoceros lasiotis, on account of its most obvious external peculiarity being thelong hairs which fringe the ears. The existing number of rhinoceros known he considered to be six, four Asiatic and two African.