Young Nimrod, 1874. The two (supposed new species of) Indian rhinoceroses. Oriental Sporting Magazine (new series) 7 (81, September): 431-432
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THE TWO (SUPPOSED NEW SPECIES OF) INDIAN RHINOCEROSES.
I have been kindly favored with information regarding the two (supposed new species of) Indian Rhinoceroses, referred to in the penultimate para. of my article on R. Indicus et R. Sondaicus, which appeared in the last May No. of the Magazine, and I hasten to communicate it to the readers thereof, as they are likely to be interested about them.
Both the above animals were several months ago shipped for England, as announced in The Month some time ago by the Editor of this periodical, and consigned to Mr. W. Jamrach, their owner; but one of them unfortunately died en route, and its carcase was cast into the sea, so nothing definite as to its being or not being a new species, can be known.
The other reached England very seedy, but was, after a deal of trouble, restored to health. Mr. Jamrach, having heard that Mr. Fraser of the Indian Museum considered it to be a new species, examined it critically, and being convinced in his own mind that it was so, he invited Dr. Sclater of the Geological Society to view it. He went and inspected it, and at first pronounced it to be the common Indian rhino. R. Indicus, but on being pointed out the differences between them, he then declared it to be the young of Sunderbun Rhino, R. Sondaicus, with the scales not properly developed. Afterwards Mr. Jamrach described it, I hear, in the columns of the Field, as R. Jamrachii, and sold it to some one in Berlin, where it is probably now, and where some sharp German savant will doubtless before long discover it to be a new species, and communicate an elaborate description of it to some continental scientific journal, claiming, of course unwillingly, the honor of the discovery, and ergo the right of christening it by whatever name he pleases,
I have to mention that the above Rhino is in no wise like the young of the Soonderbun Rhino, a species of which, taken from the uterus of its dam after death, can, I believe, be seen in the Indian Museum. The scales, in even that unborn animal, are fully formed.
YOUNG NIMROD. KHULNA, Jessore, August 26th, 1874.
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