 | Buys, M. 1900 In het hart der Preanger. Leiden, S.C.van Doesburgh, pp. 1-214 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
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| Reports about a burial place for animals, but the locals had never heard of a visit of a rhinoceros to this mountain. - [Mentioned by Buijs 1900, a small lake called Telaga Bodas in the crater of Mt. Telaga bodas, situated between the SE and NW hills of the Galoenggoeng, in the Preanger.] |
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| The Bangkok Times for 11 November 1897 mentions a rhino being shot by Mr. C. Ephraums - no species indicated - few details: animal was seen at a sulphur spring within 6 miles of Ipoh, Perak, it was an old male, 6 feet high at the shoulder and about 8 feet in length; his horn measured 13 inches an... |
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Asian Rhino Species
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| At Alor Star, Kedah, the malays told me no rhinoceros was known in that district, which is mostly flat; they looked on it as an animal only inhabiting the mountains. |
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| Ridley, H.N. 1900 A botanical excursion to Gunong Jerai (Kedah Peak). Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 34: 23-30 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Mr. A.L. Butler wrote from Kuala Lumpur, 25 Oct 1898, ?I went to see a big rhinoceros in apitfall the other day at Rantan Panjang. A fine big female R. sumatrensis. [dimensions] The great thing that struck me was her extraordinary tameness. She had only been caught three days, but fed readily f... |
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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| Mr Ridley told me that in 1896 he saw a rhinoceros in the Dindings. |
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Sumatran Rhino
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| In Perak, English friends have told me, rhinoceroses were not uncommon till 3 or 4 years ago in the Larut Hills, above 4000 feet. |
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Sclater (1875) mentions a rhinoceros of this species ?captured in the Sunghi-njong (probably Sungei-Ujong) district of Malacca' and says other specimens ?from the same district or the neighbouring territory of Johore were imported into Europe.' |
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| Hanitsch, R. 1900 Annual Report of the Raffles Library and Museum for 1900. Singapore, Raffles Museum, pp. 1-11 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Singapore
Museums
Sumatran Rhino
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| The most important addition, though it is only on loan, was a female Rhinoceros sumatrensis. It was caught in Perak for the Austrain Government, but died in Singapore before it could be shipped to Europe, and was mounted by the Museum staff. The Acting Consul-General for Austria, Mr. R. von Pusta... |
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| Flower, S.S. 1900 On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1 |
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Mr. T.ff.Carlisle, H.B.M. Consular Service, wrote from Baw Yakar, Pailin, Battambong Province, Siam, 4 Feb 1899, that he `met an old Shan hunter here who has shot both the one-horned and the two-horned rhinoceros.' |
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