Skull, head. Locality: Tenasserim provinces. Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, India.
Skull, head. Locality: Tenasserim provinces. Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, India.
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Rhinoceros sondaicus and Rhinoceros unicornis appear to be numerous on the Malayan Peninsula.
A two-horned rhinoceros is stated by the Malays to inhabit, but rarely to leave, the densest jungle. The Museum of the Asiatic Society possesses a skull, and a head with the skin on, of R. sumatranus, from the Tenasserim provinces, in which locality the existence of the species has been recorded by Helfer and Blyth. This fact would seem to corroborate the statement of the Malays, and the habitat of R. sumatranus may reasonably be expected to be hereafter found to extend over the neighbouring Malayan Peninsula. As such, it was indeed enumerated by Begbie (Malayan Peninsula, 1834). In Lt.Col. Low's History of Tenasserim (J.As.Soc. 3, 1836) is figured the head of a young rhinoceros which appears to be a two-horned specimen.
The Museum of the Asiatic Society possesses a skull, and a head with the skin on, of R. sumatranus, from the Tenasserim provinces, in which locality the existence of the species has been recorded by Helfer and Blyth.
A two-horned rhinoceros is stated by the Malays to inhabit, but rarely to leave, the densest jungle.
