 | Fytche, 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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Javan Rhino
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| I have shot a fine male specimen of the Rhinoceros sondaicus. |
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| Anderson, 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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Sumatran Rhino
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| 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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| Anderson, 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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Asian Rhino Species
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| 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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| Fytche, 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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Asian Rhino Species
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| 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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| Fytche, 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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Asian Rhino Species
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| 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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| Blyth, 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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| 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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| Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 |
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| 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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| Anderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132 |
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| This same informant also assured me that he had seen at Mogonny a Rhinoceros-head with three horns. |
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| MacMaster, 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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| 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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| MacMaster, 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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Sumatran Rhino
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| 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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