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Show 1900.] M A M M A L S O F SIAM A N D T H E M A L A I PENINSULA. 367 (p. 55)" a two-horned Rhinoceros is stated by the Malays to inhabit, but rarely to leave, the densest jungle," which he expects to be R. sumatrensis. Unfortunately he does not mention seeing any local specimens, or give any details of why be includes R. unicornis in his list. Personally I have never seen even the tracks of a wild rhinoceros. At Alor Star, Kedah, the Malays told m e no rhinoceros was known in that district, which is mostly flat; they looked on it as an animal only inhabiting the mountains. An Englishman once told me he had seen tracks of rhinoceros on Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak) at several thousand feet above the sea. In Perak, English friends have told me, rhinoceroses were not uncommon till three or four years ago in the Larut Hills above four thousand feet. In the south of Perak, however, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish in colour. The ' Bangkok Times' for 11th Nov., 1897, mentions a rhinoceros being shot by Mr. C. Ephraums : unfortunately this account, as usual, does not say to what species the animal belonged and gives but few details- the rhinoceros was " seen at a sulphur spring within six miles of Ipoh," Perak: it "was an old male, stood 6 feet high at the shoulder and about 8 feet in length ; his ' Sumbu,' or horn, measured 13 inches and weighed 3 lbs." Mr. Eidley told me that in 1896 he saw a rhinoceros in the Dindings; and (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 25, Jan. 1894, p. 59) he mentions having seen tracks of some species of rhinoceros in the Tahan River woods, Pahang, where he also heard the animal at night. Mr. T. ff. Carlisle, H.B.M. Consular Service, writing to me from Baw Yakar, Pailin, Battambong Province of Siam, 4th Feb., 1899, says " I have met an old Shan huuter here who has shot both the one-horned and the two-horned rhinoceros." 139. RHINOCEROS SONDAICUS CUV. The Smaller One-horned < Rhinoceros. Rhinoceros sondaicus, Blanf. Faun. Ind., M a m m . p. 474, fig. 155 (p. 475). A young female, just dead, was brought to the Siamese Museum on the 10th Feb., 1897, which I was told had been brought from the Laos Country, and had died on reaching Bangkok. There was no horn. Colour uniform dusky grey. Only one pair of incisors showed through the gums in the lower jaw, they were tusk-like ; none showed in the upper jaw, the gum forming a hard pad in the place where the incisors of a horse would be. Ridley (Nat. Science, vi. 1895, p. 161) says R. sondaicus appears to be the common rhinoceros of the Malay Peninsula. " It frequents the hill-jungles, ascending to 4000 feet altitude, and seems usually to move about at night, though one may come upon it by day. It has a habit of constantly using the same track, and dropping its dung in the same place daily, a habit common also to the tapir. As the jungle gets cleared, it wanders often into the |