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Show lrnlh itt llesum. lllilpitcernt. Dcgum, tho hairy-eared rhinoceros ot Imdon's Zoological Gardens Is dead. When this animal arrived In England, In 1S72, she waa described na a new aperies, but there la aomo reason rea-son to think that this form la only a variety of the Bumatran rhinoceros, Tho hide la thin and has none of the strongly-marked tubercles characteristic characteris-tic of the Indian speclca; there are some slight akin folda about the neck and the base of the limbs, a deep groovo behind tho abouldcr blades and una leas conspicuous on each Dank. Tho body la covered with long, fine, reddish hair, the hinder marglna ot tho pars have long hairy fringes and the tall la ahort and hairy. In 18G3 Ilcgum waa discovered by some natives na-tives stuck In a quicksand In Chltta-gong Chltta-gong and they aet to work to get her nut When this was accomplished they tied her to a tree and left her for the night In the morning, however, how-ever, they were alarmed at her struggles strug-gles and tent oft Information ot their, rapture to the nearest Ilrltlsh magts-' l trate, with a request for help. Two j Kngllah officers started with aome na-1 na-1 tlves and elephants, only to find that ! the rhlnocvroi had freed' bsrael n"ii bolted. They started In pursuit, byt when they came up with the prize they found that the elephants were frightened at the strange henat Eotnt time waa upeut In quieting the elephants, ele-phants, to one ot which tho rhlnoccroi nt laat was fastened by a rope, nnd I the Englishmen hoped that their dim-l dim-l cuttles were at nn end, but the elephant ele-phant bolted In terror, nnd had not ' the rope parted the rhlnoccrca must !bavo been killed. At laat n stanch elephant waa movrd up on each aide of tho rhinoceros, which waa secured to them, and In this fashion she was brought to the settlement, whence she waa sent to England. Tho price paid I for the animal was ICJ60. Her lift In the gardens of over twenty-eight ycara la exceeded among tho large untmala only In the rase of "Jim," the Indian rhinoceros, who waa brought tu tho menagerie In 1SCI. "Dcgum" had been nlllng (or aome time. |