V. 285, there is mention of the Falco
Malaiensis, black, with a double white-and-brown spotted tail, said to
belong to the ospreys, "but does not disdain to take birds and other
game."
[1] See Anderson's Missing to East Coast of Sumatra. pp. 229, 233 and
map. The Ferlec of Polo was identified by Valentyn. (Sumatra, in
vol. v. p. 21.) Marsden remarks that a terminal k is in Sumatra
always softened or omitted in pronunciation. (H. of Sum. 1st. ed. p.
163.) Thus we have Perlak, and Perla, as we have Battak and Batta.
[2] Since this engraving was made a fourth species has been established,
Rhin lasyotis, found near Chittagong.
[3] The elephant of India has 6 true ribs and 13 false ribs, that of
Sumatra and Ceylon has 6 true and 14 false.
[4] Marsden, however, does say that a one-horned species (Rh. sondaicus?)
is also found on Sumatra (3rd ed. of his H. of Sumatra, p. 116).
[5] An American writer professes to have discovered in Missouri the fossil
remains of a bogged mastodon, which had been killed precisely in this
way by human contemporaries. (See Lubbock, Preh. Times, ad ed. 279.)
[6] Tresor, p. 253; N. and E., V. 263; Jordanus, p. 43.
[7] Another mediaeval illustration of the subject is given in Les Arts au
Moyen Age, p. 499, from the binding of a book. It is allegorical, and
the Maiden is there the Virgin Mary.
