File AvailableCordes, J.W.H. 1881 De djati-bosschen op Java; hunne natuur, verspreiding, geschiedenis en exploitatie. Batavia, Ogilvie and Co, pp. i-vii, 1-318
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
There is a possibility that the rhino would wander eastwards. Junghuhn (Java, III, 706) says that a rhinoceros was shot in the southern part of the residency Kediri.- Kediri, Java, 7.34 S, 111.26 E.
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File AvailableCordes, J.W.H. 1881 De djati-bosschen op Java; hunne natuur, verspreiding, geschiedenis en exploitatie. Batavia, Ogilvie and Co, pp. i-vii, 1-318
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
According to tradition, a rhinoceros was seen in the residency of Rembang in olden days. In the western part of the district Ngawen [=Ngawi, 7.25 S, 111.26E], on the border of the residencies Rembang and Semarang, south of the Bandoel in the midst of a Djati-forest, there is a dried-up waterhole...
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File AvailableJentink, F.A.; Hagen, B. 1881 Voorloopige mededeelingen over de fauna van Oost-Sumatra. Aardrijkskundig Weekblad 2 (44-45): 273-288, 289-293
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
The two-horned rhinoceros or sumatrensis only occursin Sumatra.
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File AvailableJentink, F.A.; Hagen, B. 1881 Voorloopige mededeelingen over de fauna van Oost-Sumatra. Aardrijkskundig Weekblad 2 (44-45): 273-288, 289-293
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
These animals are found everywhere on the islands, from the coastal forests to the highest mountains.
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File AvailablePryer, W.B. 1881 Animal life in Borneo. Zoologist (3) 5 (58): 393-398
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
The natives declare a three-horned species exists, and I have seen a skull which I should not like to say was not a three-horned one, the third horn, however, being very small.
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File AvailableCordes, J.W.H. 1881 De djati-bosschen op Java; hunne natuur, verspreiding, geschiedenis en exploitatie. Batavia, Ogilvie and Co, pp. i-vii, 1-318
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
Java. The rhinoceros would only eat thorns.
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File AvailableCordes, J.W.H. 1881 De djati-bosschen op Java; hunne natuur, verspreiding, geschiedenis en exploitatie. Batavia, Ogilvie and Co, pp. i-vii, 1-318
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
Java. The rhinoceros would only eat thorns.
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File AvailableHagen, B. 1881 Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras. Ausland 1881 (28): 553-556
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Behaviour - Towards Man
Sumatran Rhino
If the animal is angered, it will attack anything. One day my 16-year old Batta helper had to flee behind a tree and was wearing a long curved sword. He hit the animal so many times from behind the tree that in the end it fell down and died from loss of blood.
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File AvailableHagen, B. 1881 Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras. Ausland 1881 (28): 553-556
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
When the people hunt it, one will shoot the animal, which then runs towards the hunter. Another man will jump to the animal's side and cuts the nerves in the hind leg. The rhinoceros then falls down.
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File AvailableHasselt, A.L. van 1881 Ethnographische atlas van Midden-Sumatra, met verklarende tekst. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i, 1-63
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
The plate shows the Pantjaboe Gadjah, a spear that falls down used in the Kota to kill elephant, rhinoceros and other game. Only those laces are suitable for this device where there are two heavy trees at a distance of 1 ? meters at each side of the trail where the animal used to pass. Between ...
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File AvailableBock, C. 1881 The head-hunters of Borneo: a narrative of travel up to Mahakkam and down the Barito; also, journeying in Sumatra. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, pp. i-xvi, 1-344
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableMontano, J. 1881 Une mission aux iles malaises (Borneo, Soulou, Mindanao). Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (7) 2: 465-483
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableE.T.S. 1881 The Dutch East Indies as a sporting ground, with remarks on the Bornean rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 58 (1514), 1881 december 31: 944-945
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailablePryer, W.B. 1881 Rhinoceros and elephant in Borneo. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 1881 June 4: 785
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableBurbidge, F.W. 1880 The gardens of the sun, or a naturalist's journal on the mountains and in the forests and swamps of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago. London, John Murray, pp. i-xix, 1-364
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Skin, horns. Locality: Borneo, Sagaliad river, about 20 miles from Sandakan. Collected by: Mr Dobree. In coll. Mr Dobree, coffee planter, Sandakan, Borneo
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File AvailableBurbidge, F.W. 1880 The gardens of the sun, or a naturalist's journal on the mountains and in the forests and swamps of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago. London, John Murray, pp. i-xix, 1-364
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Skin, horns. Locality: Borneo, Sagaliad river, about 20 miles from Sandakan. Collected by: Mr Dobree. In coll. Mr Dobree, coffee planter, Sandakan, Borneo
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File AvailableBurbidge, F.W. 1880 The gardens of the sun, or a naturalist's journal on the mountains and in the forests and swamps of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago. London, John Murray, pp. i-xix, 1-364
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Mr Dobree [a coffee planter] showed us the skin of a young rhinoceros which he had shot in the mudpool near the Sagaliad river, about 20 miles from Sandakan. The lower horn was 3 inches in length, the upper one only just growing.
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File AvailableBurbidge, F.W. 1880 The gardens of the sun, or a naturalist's journal on the mountains and in the forests and swamps of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago. London, John Murray, pp. i-xix, 1-364
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
Mr Dobree [a coffee planter] showed us the skin of a young rhinoceros which he had shot in the mudpool near the Sagaliad river, about 20 miles from Sandakan. The lower horn was 3 inches in length, the upper one only just growing.
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File AvailableFlower, W.H. 1880 Exhibition of a skull of a rhinoceros from Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880 February 17: 69-70
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableMontano, J. 1880 La riviere Sagaliud et les Bouli Doupis (ile de Borneo). Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (6) 20: 182-191
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution
Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableBixby, O.J. 1880 My child-life in Burmah; or, recollections and incidents. Boston, W.G.Corthell
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableBixby, O.J. 1880 My child-life in Burmah; or, recollections and incidents. Boston, W.G.Corthell
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableG.A. 1880 Reminiscences of an Indian officer. Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts 11 September 1880: 583-588
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableDent, A. 1880 Gift of rhinoceros skull from Borneo by W.B. Pryer. Autograph in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge (Historical Papers, vol. 2, no. 237)
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Letter by Alfred Dent (29 Mesham Stret, London) to John Willis Clark of UMZC, dated 5 August 1880: "The rhinoceros skull will be sent without the mount. It should be entered as a present of Mr W B Pryer of Sandakan, Borneo."
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File AvailableGroneman, J. 1879 Waar of onwaar: nieuwe indische schetsen. Dordrecht, J.P.Revers, vol. 2
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Value
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailablePollok, F.T. 1879 Review of Sport in British Burmah. Graphic, an Illustrated Weekly Newspaper 19 (495), 1879 May 24: 514
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Asia - South East Asia
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableFytche, A. 1878 Burma past and present with personal reminiscences of the country. London, C. Kegan Paul and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xv, 1-355
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
Of R. sumatrensis, I shot a very fine male specimen in the Tavoy District.
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File AvailableRosenberg, H. von 1878 Der Malayische Archipel: Land und Leute in Schilderungen, gesammelt eahrend eines dreissigjaehrigen Aufenthaltes in den Kolonien. Leipzig, Gustav Weigel, pp. i-iii, i-xvi, 1-615
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
reasonably numerous, but seldom seen
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File AvailableFytche, A. 1878 Burma past and present with personal reminiscences of the country. London, C. Kegan Paul and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xv, 1-355
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
I have shot a fine male specimen of the Rhinoceros sondaicus.
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File AvailableAnderson, J. 1878 Anatomical and zoological researches: comprising an account of the zoological results of the two expeditions to Western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875; and a monograph of the two cetacean genera, Platanista and Orcella. London, Bernard Quaritch, vol. 1, pp. i-xxv, 1-985
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The Shans of Bhamo are familiar with the existence of a two-horned rhinoceros, which occurs on the right bank of the Irawady, in the district of Mogoung. Probably R. sumatrensis.
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File AvailableAnderson, J. 1878 Anatomical and zoological researches: comprising an account of the zoological results of the two expeditions to Western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875; and a monograph of the two cetacean genera, Platanista and Orcella. London, Bernard Quaritch, vol. 1, pp. i-xxv, 1-985
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Rhinoceros in Mogoung. I could not obtain any reliable information to serve as a guide to the identification of the species, whether it might be Rhinoceros niger, or the species which I some years ago described as Rhinoceros sumatrensis of Bell, but which Dr Sclater considered to be a distinct s...
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File AvailableFytche, A. 1878 Burma past and present with personal reminiscences of the country. London, C. Kegan Paul and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xv, 1-355
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Besides Rhinoceros sondaicus, I have also shot several specimens of the two other species which exist in Burma, namely Ceratorhinus crossii and Rhinoceros sumatrensis. Both are two-horned. In the former type the hide is comparatively thin, of a pale clay colour, covered with longish brown hairs...
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File AvailableFytche, A. 1878 Burma past and present with personal reminiscences of the country. London, C. Kegan Paul and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xv, 1-355
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
They are most valued by the Chinese and other Eastern nations for certain alleged restorative properties and as remedies for epilepsy, and against the effects of poison.
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File AvailableRosenberg, H. von 1878 Der Malayische Archipel: Land und Leute in Schilderungen, gesammelt eahrend eines dreissigjaehrigen Aufenthaltes in den Kolonien. Leipzig, Gustav Weigel, pp. i-iii, i-xvi, 1-615
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
It is found even at a height of 6000 feet.
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File AvailableEck, R. van 1878 Schetsen van Bali. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie (ns) 7 92): 129
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Bali
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableCroley, H. 1878 Geography of the Eastern Peninsula. Ootacamund, Harry R. Starr
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Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableMacNair, J.F. 1878 Perak and the Malays. Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, Oxford University Press
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
History
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableKruyt, J.A. 1877 Atjeh en de Atjehers: twee jaren blokkade of Sumatra's Noord-Oost kust. Leiden, Gualth. Kolff, pp. i-vii, 1-252, i-iii
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Sungei Raya in Atjeh. We find here elephant, rhinoceros (badda), tiger etc.
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File AvailableIrving, C.J. 1877 Annual Report of the Raffles Library and Museum for the year 1877. Singapore, Raffles Museum, pp. 1-4
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Asia - South East Asia
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
The Museum possesses three skeletons of value, that of a Sumatran rhinoceros, horse and tiger, besides sundt skulls.
Donated (after 1 August 1877) by the Garden Commitee: Rhinoceros skeleton and skin.
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File AvailableGarrod, A.H. 1877 On some points in the visceral anatomy of the rhinoceros of the Sunderbunds (Rhinoceros sondaicus). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877 November 6: 707-711, figs. 1-3
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Morphology
Javan Rhino
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File AvailableBradley, J. 1877 Hunting the rhinoceros. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News 1877 March 17: 608
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Rhinoceros javanicus lives in the mountains of the Preanger and is not uncommon. It is less known in the eastern part of Java.
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File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The people of Danau Sriang told me that the rhinoceros lives on the mountains, but not near the lakes.
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File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
If the rhinoceros has one or two horns here, the stories are not clear. If there are two horns, it would be like the species of Sumatra, Rh. Sumatranus. Gray believes in a one-horned species in Borneo which he caled Rh. frontalis.
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File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The rhinoceros lives both on the east and on the west coast.
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File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
On Sumatra lives a double-horned species Rh. Sumatranus, and also, it seems, a single-horned one called Rh. Floweri Gray.
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File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
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Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Rhinoceros javanicus lives in the mountains of the Preanger and is not uncommon. It is less known in the eastern part of Java.
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File AvailableKrohn, W. 1876 Report of the Zoological Department for 1875. In: Annual Report of the Raffles Library and Museum for the year 1875: pp. 1-2
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia
Captivity
Sumatran Rhino
In May last [1875] a fine two-horned rhinoceros was presented to us by Sir A. Clarke , through the Datu Klana of Sunghei Ujong; a good house has been built for this animal, and that on a rather large scale, with a view of widening it at a little expense for the accommodation of an elephant and ta...
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File AvailableBradley, J. 1876 A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. London, Samuel Tinsley, pp. i-vi, 1-338
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
In 1869, near Lahaing, between the Thungyen and Menam rivers. As we were crossing a small plain towards evening, three rhinoceroses came in sight. We could not get near enough for a shot. On the River Menam, a solitary rhinoceros was seen. Very shortly afterwards, a small herd of five rhinoce...
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File AvailableBradley, J. 1876 A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. London, Samuel Tinsley, pp. i-vi, 1-338
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
A few miles from River Menam, we met with a large single-horned animal, which was shot.
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File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
The Dayaks make a number of tools from the horn like beakers.
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File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Names in vernacular
Javan Rhino
Badaq
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File AvailableBradley, J. 1876 A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. London, Samuel Tinsley, pp. i-vi, 1-338
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Javan Rhino
In 1870, on River Menam, we witnessed a fight between a bull buffalo and a rhinoceros in which, however, neither seemed much hurt.
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File AvailableBradley, J. 1876 A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. London, Samuel Tinsley, pp. i-vi, 1-338
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Ecology - Food
Javan Rhino
Rhinoceroses often nearly ruin the villagers by breaking into the rice and maize fields.
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File AvailableMorice, A. 1876 Voyage en Cochinchine pendant les annees 1872-73-74. Lyon, H. Georg, pp. 1-44
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia
Culture
Asian Rhino Species
The Phuquoc in Indochina. On the island of Phuquoc lives another legendary animal, which is a rhinoceros with a horn which is illuminated at night. Nobody has ever found a trace.
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File AvailableWanderer 1876 Sport in the Malayan Peninsula. Oriental Sporting Magazine (new series) 9 (102, June): 216-220
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableF.E.W. 1876 RT on the Malay peninsula. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 1876 June 3: 627
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailablePenzeln, A. von 1876 Uber die Malayische Saugethier-Fauna. Festschrift zur Feier des fünfundzwanzigjährigen Bestehens der k. k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, pp. 51-74
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Asia - South East Asia
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1875 Catalogue of the mammals and birds of Burma. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 44 (2) Extra: 1-167
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
A.Grote, biography Blyth
[x] Blyth made a short tour in the Provinces in July, 1856. He spent some six weeks in Lucknow, Cawnpore, Allahabad, and Benares. Oude had just been annexed, and the sale of the Royal Menagerie at Lucknow had been determined on. The tigers were the finest caged specime...
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File AvailableHarting, P. 1875 De rhinoceros op Nieuw Guinea. Album der Natuur 1868 bijblad: 95
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - New Guinea
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableMeyer, A.B. 1875 The rhinoceros in New Guinea. Nature 11, February 4: 268
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - New Guinea
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableWalker, A.O. 1875 The rhinoceros in New Guinea. Nature 11, January 28: 248
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Asia - South East Asia - New Guinea
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableD'Abain, J.G.G. 1875 Report to the American Geographical Society of New York on the kingdom of Cambodia, the ruins of Angkor and the Kingdom of Siam. Journal of the American Geographical Society, New York 7: 333-356
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableMoresby, J. 1875 Discoveries in Eastern New Guinea, by Captain Moresby and the officers of H.M.S. Basilisk. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 45: 153-170
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Asia - South East Asia - New Guinea
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableVeth, P.J. 1875 Java: geographisch, ethnologisch, historisch. Haarlem, de erven F. Bohn, vol. 1, pp. i-x, 1-674
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution
Javan Rhino
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File AvailableThomson, J. 1875 The straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China; or, ten years travels, adventures, and residence abroad. New York, Harper and Brothers, pp. i-xv, 1-546
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution
Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableBartlett, A.D. 1874 Exhibition of a rhinoceros-horn from Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 499
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Horn. Locality: Borneo. Coll. Bartlett, London, United Kingdom
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File AvailableBartlett, A.D. 1874 Exhibition of a rhinoceros-horn from Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 499
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Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Mr. Bartlett remarked that these specimens left no doubt of the existence in Borneo of a Rhinoceros which was probably allied to R. sondaicus, but of smaller dimensions.
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File AvailableEverett, A.H. 1874 Notes

In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
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Sumatran Rhino
and the country at the head of the Rejang, i.e. for the last five days of its course, would seem to be well suited to be the habitat of this bulky herbivore, being described as destitute of any settled human population, and as affording stretches of tolerably level and grassy country which afford...
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File AvailableEverett, A.H. 1874 Notes

In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
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Asian Rhino Species
The general close affinity between the faunas of Borneo and Sumatra suggests that a Bornean Rhinoceros would be found to be furnished with two horns; and, in fact, natives describe it as being so. It is very long since I have seen the horns of any species of Rhinoceros; but, so far as my memory ...
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File AvailableEverett, A.H. 1874 Notes

In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
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but there is reason to believe that the animal is distributed (though not abundantly) throughout the upper course of the Rejang, Kapuas, Koti, Balungan, and, perhaps, all the larger streams of the island.
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File AvailableEverett, A.H. 1874 Notes

In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
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Sumatran Rhino
`I have forwarded to you, through Dr. Jessopp, of Norwich, two Rhinoceros-horns, obtained in the Bazaar at Sibu, the principal station of the Sarawak Government in the Rejang river. These specimens, together with three others, the largest of which, measured perpendicularly, stood 8 ? inches hig...
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File AvailableEverett, A.H. 1874 Notes

In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
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Sumatran Rhino
but there is reason to believe that the animal is distributed (though not abundantly) throughout the upper course of the Rejang, Kapuas, Koti, Balungan, and, perhaps, all the larger streams of the island.
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File AvailableEverett, A.H. 1874 Notes

In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
but there is reason to believe that the animal is distributed (though not abundantly) throughout the upper course of the Rejang, Kapuas, Koti, Balungan, and, perhaps, all the larger streams of the island.
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File AvailableNewman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952
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Javan Rhino
Turning again to the ' Zoologist,' it is recorded by Mr. Arthur Adams, at p. 7328 of the volume for 1861, that at Mew Bay, in Java, near the Straits of Sunda, `the ground is literally ploughed up by the tracks of these unwieldy brutes.' The brutes in question beyond doubt this species, Rhinoceros...
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File AvailableWallace, A.R. 1874 On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
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Sumatran Rhino
Temadu
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File AvailableWallace, A.R. 1874 On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
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Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
Both horns and teeth are brought to Sibu by natives arriving from the above district for purposes of trade; and these articles being valued by Chinese and Malays for their supposed medicinal properties, at once command a ready sale, so that they disappear generally beyond hope of recovery.
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File AvailableWallace, A.R. 1874 On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
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Morphology - Size
Sumatran Rhino
I have forwarded to you, through Dr. Jessopp, of Norwich, two Rhinoceros-horns, obtained in the Bazaar at Sibu, the principal station of the Sarawak Government in the Rejang river. These specimens, together with three others, the largest of which, measured perpendicularly, stood 8 ? inches high...
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File AvailableGarnier, F. 1874 Apercu sur le royaume de Siam. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (6) 7: 503-509
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Asian Rhino Species
Rhinoceros [and others] are found on the Malaysian peninsula.
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File AvailableGarnier, F. 1874 Apercu sur le royaume de Siam. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (6) 7: 503-509
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Asian Rhino Species
Leprosy and other skin diseases are common. Some of the remedies contain the powder from the horns of deer or rhinoceros . much esteemed by the Siamese like by the Chinese.
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File AvailableJerdon, T.C. 1874 The mammals of India; a natural history of all the animals known to inhabit continental India. London, John Wheldon, pp. i-xxxi, 1-335
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File AvailableGanier d'Abain 1874 An elephant hunt in Siam. Scribner's Monthly 8 (2): 223-228
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File AvailableDubarry, A. 1874 Rhinoceros et tapirs a dos blancs. Musee des Familles: Lectures du Soir 1874: 145-148
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Sumatran Rhino
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File AvailableVeth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797
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Asian Rhino Species
Sumatra - hide. The Chinese also cut the hide of the rhinoceros into strips to make a kind of whip. Some parts are used as medicine.
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File AvailableVeth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797
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Asian Rhino Species
1873, Sumatra, horn 10 to 20 guilders or more
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File AvailableVeth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797
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Sumatran Rhino
The rhino of Sumatra is smaller and less brave than that of Java, which makes it less dangerous to hunt it.
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File AvailableVeth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797
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Asian Rhino Species
The Malays catch the rhinoceros in pits, which are covered with branches and dry leaves, and which are surrounded by cut trees or poles, which cut off the retreat of the animal.
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File AvailableVeth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797
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Asian Rhino Species
Rhinoceros horns (tjoela) is an article which is made valuable by the superstition of Arabs and Chinese. They believe that a horn like this, made into an amulet and worn, prevents any accident. Further that a cup made out this horn will show certain signs when the liquid inside is poisoned. Th...
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File AvailableAnderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
It is also probable, as Blyth observes, that it ranges into Assam, because, while at Bbamo in Upper Burniah, I was informed by an intelligent native that two-horned Rhinocerotes are found in the Mogonny district, which is close to the confines of Assam, and as far north as the twenty-sixth degree...
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File AvailableAnderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132
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Morphology - Horn
Sumatran Rhino
This same informant also assured me that he had seen at Mogonny a Rhinoceros-head with three horns.
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File AvailableMacDonald, Major 1872 The Lushai expedition. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 17 (1): 42-55
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Asian Rhino Species
[48] Captain Tanner, Feb.1872, undertook a journey down the Uiphum Range towards the “Blue Mountain” of the old maps, to the south. 24-27 Jan, traveling from Demagiri. Tract has not been inhabited for a generation. Wild elephants and rhinoceros appear to abound in great numbers in this tract,...
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File AvailableMacMaster, A.C. 1871 Notes on Jerdon s Mammals of India (by an Indian sportsman and lover of natural history). Madras, Higginbotham, pp. i-vi, 1-266
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
I have twice while looking for elephant come upon a rhinoceros, perhaps the same animal in both cases, in a large swamp, in the dense forest north of Shuay Gheen in Burmah, and not far from the beautiful Bogatha stream, but although we must each time have been within a few yards of him as he was ...
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File AvailableMacMaster, A.C. 1871 Notes on Jerdon s Mammals of India (by an Indian sportsman and lover of natural history). Madras, Higginbotham, pp. i-vi, 1-266
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
I have twice while looking for elephant come upon a rhinoceros, perhaps the same animal in both cases, in a large swamp, in the dense forest north of Shuay Gheen in Burmah, and not far from the beautiful Bogatha stream.
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File AvailableAnonymous 1871 Rhinoceros hunting in Java. Bow Bells 14 (354, May 10): 366
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Javan Rhino
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File AvailableLeonowens, A.H. 1870 The English governess at the Siamese court: being recollections of six years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok. London, Trubner and Co, pp. 1-321
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Asian Rhino Species
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File AvailableBlyth, E. (Zoophilus) 1869 Animals of Burma. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 34, 1869 October 16: 334
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Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Specimen unspecified. Locality: Tenasserim. Collected by: Dr Oldham, 1850. In coll. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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File AvailableBlyth, E. (Zoophilus) 1869 Animals of Burma. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 34, 1869 October 16: 334
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Museums
Sumatran Rhino
Specimen unspecified. Locality: Tenasserim. Collected by: Dr Oldham, 1850. In coll. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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File AvailableFraser, W.T. 1869 The present existence of the rhinoceros in Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 November 25: 529
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Secretary [P.L.Sclater] in London receibed a letter from W.T. Fraser of Soerabaya, Java, dated 30 Aug 1869: `I duly received your note of the 30 April regarding the existence of the Rhinoceros in Borneo. There have been lately arrivals of several prahus from Koeti and I have been able to questio...
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File AvailableBlyth, E. [Zoophilus] 1869 Rhinoceros horn toppling forward. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 34,1869 September 4: 192
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Sumatran Rhino
In November 1861, a rhinoceros was killed not five miles from here, in Upper Martaban near the Shan frontier.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. [Zoophilus] 1869 Rhinoceros horn toppling forward. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 34,1869 September 4: 192
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Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
I was favoured with a skull of Rhinoceros sondaicus that had been shot near Tavai Point, where a small colony of that species exists.
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