 | Anonymous 1909 Record rhino shot: Biggest specimen known bagged in Assam. Straits Times, Singapore 17 May 1909: 8 |
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| In Assam a rhino was shot with a horn 24 ¼ inches in length, exceeding by over 4 inches the previous record in the Ipswich Museum. In height the animal stood 6 ft 4 in. It was shot by Mr T. Briscoe, a planter in the Tezpur district |
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| Anonymous 1909 The game preserves of Assam. Forest and Stream 73 (26): 1036-1037 |
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| Shikar 1909 A record rhino [shot by T. Briscoe in Assam]. The Englishman (Calcutta) Tuesday 4 May 1909: 3 |
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| A Record Rhino – April 27
It will be of interest to those of your readers who are keen on shikar to learn that a rhino has lately been shot in Assam which carried a horn 24¼ inches [61.3 cm] in length, exceeding by over 4 inches the horn in the Ipswich Museum, which I believe, was previous ... |
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| Black, W.G. 1908 Winter days in India and elsewhere. Glasgow, James Maclehose |
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| [39] Titabur, Assam (some 70 miles from China). Wild elephants serious nuisance in Assam. Tigers, jackals, and elephants and leopards are plentiful, and rhinoceros is shot down the Brahmaputra. |
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| Allen, B.S. 1908 Assam District Gazetteers, vol. 8: Lakhimpur. Calcutta, City Press |
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| (16) Lakhimpur (district north of upper Brahmaputra, north of Jorhat). Rhinoceros are now becoming scarce, but are occasionally met with in the swampy ground in the wilder portions of the district. They breed slowly, and, as the horn is worth more than its weight in silver, and the flesh is prize... |
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| Hunter, W.W. 1908 The Imperial Gazetteer of India, vol. VI: Argaon to Bardwan. New edition. Oxford, Clarendon Press |
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| Allen, B.S. 1906 Assam District Gazetteers, vol. 7: Sibsagar. Allahabad, Pioneer Press, pp. 1-323 |
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| p.2 - There is a large game reserve named the Kaziranga reserve in the vicinity of Bokakhat in Namdoyang mauza. Last year a certain area was added to it and this year again it has been proposed that a further addition should be made. |
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| Assam Government 1906 Provincial gazetteer of Assam. Shillong, Eastern Bengal and Assam Secretariat Printing Office |
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| [7] Rhinoceros are of three kinds. The large variety (unicornis) which lives in the swamps that fringe the Brahmaputra. The smaller variety (sondaicus) which is occasionally met with in the same locality. And the small two-horned rhinoceros (Sumatrensis) which is now and again seen in the hills s... |
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| Allen, B.C. 1905 Assam district gazetteers, vol. 5. Darrang. Allahabad, Pioneer Press |
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| [14] Rhinoceros live in the swamps that fringe the Brahmaputra, or near the hills, and are now extremely scarce. They breed slowly, and, as the horn is worth more than its weight in silver, and the flesh is prized as food, they present a tempting mark to the native hunter. |
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| Kenshaw, L.J. 1905 2441R - Notification of the proposed reserved forest in North Kamrup. Assam Government Proceedings 1905 |
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