[Illustration:  Monoceros and the Maiden.[7]]

We may quote the following quaint version of the fable from the Bestiary of Philip de Thaun, published by Mr. Wright (Popular Treatises on Science, etc. p. 81): 

  “Monosceros est Beste, un corne ad en la teste,
  Purceo ad si a nun, de buc ad facun;
  Par Pucele est prise; or vez en quel guise. 
    Quant hom le volt cacer et prendre et enginner,
  Si vent hom al forest u sis riparis est;
  La met une Pucele hors de sein sa mamele,
  Et par odurement Monosceros la sent;
  Dunc vent a la Pucele, et si baiset la mamele,
  En sein devant se dort, issi vent a sa mort
  Li hom suivent atant ki l’ocit en dormant
  U trestout vif le prent, si fais puis sun talent. 
  Grant chose signifie."....

And so goes on to moralise the fable.

NOTE 6.—­In the J.  Indian Archip. 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.

CHAPTER X.

THE KINGDOMS OF SAMARA AND DAGROIAN.