Reference Base Notes for: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (4) 1 2 3 4  Spillett, J.J. 1966 The Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 63 (3): 494-528 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Morphology Indian Rhino Kaziranga. Rhino are relatively difficult to sex in the field, except in the case of females with young. When a rhino urinates, a keen observer can sex individuals accurately. Other their observing their private parts, there appears to be no fool-proof criterion. However, some claim to be abl...   details Spillett, J.J. 1966 The Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 63 (3): 494-528 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Behaviour - Social Behaviour Indian Rhino Almost invariably when a female was accompanied by a calf, other females with calves could be located nearby. On March 14, we observed 5 females within a radius of 200 yards, all accompanied by a young. On other occasions, up to 20 adult rhino would be tallied at a stretch, then within a relati...   details Spillett, J.J. 1966 Laokhowa and other rhino areas in Assam. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 63 (3): 529-534 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Behaviour - Fighting Indian Rhino Three cases of rhino dying as a result of injuries sustained in fighting have been reported from Laokhowa since 1964: an ad. Female in July 1964, a male in Feb. 1965, a male in Nov. 1965.   details Spillett, J.J. 1966 The Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 63 (3): 494-528 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Reproduction Indian Rhino Kaziranga. Calf stays with the mothers for almost 4 years. It appears that the maximum rate of increase in the wild state would be little more than one calf per female every 5-6 years.   details Spillett, J.J. 1966 The Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary, Assam. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 63 (3): 494-528 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Reproduction Indian Rhino Kaziranga. The young attain puberty at about 4 ? years of age.   details Gee, E.P. 1962 The management of India's national Parks and wildlife sanctuaries. part IV. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 59 (2): 453-485 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department 1961 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1950-51. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Pfeffer, P. 1959 Les sanctuaires naturels de l'Assam. Science et Nature, par la photographie et par l'image no. 33, May-Jun: 19-23, 5 images Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Ecology - Interspecific Relations Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Burnett, J.H. 1958 The Manas - Assam's unknown wild life sanctuary. Oryx 4 (5): 322-325 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Ecology - Interspecific Relations Indian Rhino Tigers take their toll of calves and there are stories, some of the most sanguinary nature, of desperate battles between a rhino mother and, on one occasion, two tigers   details Burnett, J.H. 1958 The Manas - Assam's unknown wild life sanctuary. Oryx 4 (5): 322-325 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino The rhino and its wallow are inseparable.   details Ylla 1958 Indians and their animals. Sports Illustrated 29 September 1958: 66-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department 1957 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1949-50. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Gee, E.P. 1955 Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn) cow with (presumptive) twin calves. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 53 (2): 256-257 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Reproduction Indian Rhino Observation in Kaziranga, 24 July 1955. near Mora Difloo stream. Observed 3 rhino: a mother with her calf close to her amd about 12-15 yards away another calf, presumably without the mother. When we were talking, the second calf looked up and then immediately ran to join the mother and other c...   details Assam Government 1954 Assam Rhinoceros Preservation Act. Guwahati, pp. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Conservation Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Graham, R. 1954 Rhino! Rhino! A postwar adventure to capture two rhinos for the Brookfield Zoo. Ex- C-B-I Round up [China-Burma-India] 8 (8): 10-18 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Translocation Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Diseases - Parasites Indian Rhino A new-born calf left by mother overnight was found with 6 leeches on it but no blood.   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Morphology Indian Rhino Kaziranga - calf 2 weeks old. It was pinkish colour, had no tushes and no teeth.   details Gee, E.P. 1953 The life history of the Great Indian one-horned Rhinoceros (R unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (2): 341-348, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Ecology - Population Indian Rhino From own experience in Kaziranga, on 6 April 1939 I photographed an old bull with an old wound on the hindquarters, known as 'boora goonda', the old big bull. On 8 Jan 1950 the same bull was seen with a cow just outside the sanctuary. The same bull was still frequenting the place in April 1952....   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Old male 'Boorra Goonda', died June 1953, height at shoulder 5 ft 9 in.   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Reproduction Indian Rhino Kaziranga. Three days previously, the Range Officer when conducting the American Consul General round the sanctuary, saw the same pair running and playing between themselves and making a whistling like sound, the female passing urine at short and frequent intervals. Both these rhinos rushed tow...   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Morphology Indian Rhino Kaziranga - calf 2 weeks old. It was pinkish colour, had no tushes and no teeth.   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Behaviour - Social Behaviour Indian Rhino From personal observations made in Kaziranga since 1939 I have found that, although the rhino is not actually a gregarious animal, there are certain conditions other than sexual which bring them frequently together. At the time when the areas of burnt-off grass produce tender green shoots in the...   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Behaviour - Towards Man Indian Rhino The two rhino named Romeo and Juliet were twice involved in an attack against humans. Firstly on 7-2-1953 E. R. Dungan was taking cine shots of these two rhino as they were playing, courting and. chasing one another. With him were two companions, one of was the Assistant Conservator of Forests ...   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Behaviour - Social Behaviour Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Behaviour - Fighting Indian Rhino In the area of Kohora Grazing and Vasalimari Bheel in Kaziraiiga it has been possible during the cold weather of 1952-53 to observe some ten or twelve rhino, four of which were recognizable and known by name Boorra Goonda, Kan Katta, Romeo and Juliet. These four and others passed and repassed ea...   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino As for dung heaps belonging to individual rhino and denoting territory, my own observations do not confirm this. It is my personal belief that, although rhino generally remain in one particular part of the sanctuary, they move about freely within that locality according to availability of grazin...   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Behaviour - Daily Routine Indian Rhino When monsoon floods invade the sanctuary, the muddy wallows so much sought after by rhino for warding of flies are very few and far between. The few that exist are in great demand, and several rhino sometimes have to share a wallow. For example, on 23-7-53 A. Jairamdas, while visiting Kaziranga ...   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Kaziranga. Old male ?Boorra Goonda', died June 1953, length from root of tail to tip of nose 10 ft 9 in.   details Gee, E.P. 1953 The life history of the Great Indian one-horned Rhinoceros (R unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (2): 341-348, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Reproduction Indian Rhino Kaziranga. Three cases have been observed in Kaziranga. On 17 April 1938, the visitor's book noted: 'A couple of rhino seen in the act of mating', seen by E.I. Matthews. 'It took them about 20 seconds to break off in surprise. The female seemed to be on her knees, but it may have been the swa...   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Reproduction Indian Rhino Kaziranga. A fifth case of rhino actually mating was observed in Kaziranga by L. Rynjah, the Divisional Forest Officer, and R. C. Das, the Range Officer. On 10 March 1953, at 4 pm, they came across a pair mating. L. Rynjah has described the incident as follows: 'The female standing as usual an...   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Two week old calf, Kaziranga, length incl tail 3 ft 9 in   details Gee, E.P. 1953 The life history of the Great Indian one-horned Rhinoceros (R unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (2): 341-348, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Length at birth 4 ft, Kaziranga   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Kaziranga. Old male ?Boorra Goonda', died June 1953, horn weight 2 lbs. 6 oz.   details Gee, E.P. 1953 The life history of the Great Indian one-horned Rhinoceros (R unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (2): 341-348, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Height at birth 2 ft, Kaziranga   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Morphology - Size Indian Rhino Kaziranga. Old male ?Boorra Goonda', died June 1953, horn length 14 in.   details Assam Forest Department 1953 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1947-48. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Taxonomy Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Friel, R. 1951 Assam District gazetteers, Supplement to voluem VI: Nowgong. Shillong, Assam Secretariat Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino [2] In 1907, a game sanctuary with an area of 25,700 acres was formed at Laokhowa with the object of preserving big game which was getting scarcer every year. The reserve is entirely closed for shooting and hunting. There are about a dozen rhinoceros and also many other kinds of big game in the r...   details Assam Forest Department 1951 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1950-1951. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Ali, S.A. 1950 The Great Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis Linn) in Assam Province, India. Proceedings and Papers, International Technical Conference on the Protection of Nature 1949: 470-472 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Diseases Indian Rhino Anthrax and similar diseases are readily contracted by wild animals from infected vllage cattle with wholesale tragic results. Domestic cattle were undoubtedly responsible for the anthrax epidemic of 1947 which destroyed an ascertained total of fourteen rhinoceros in Kaziranga Sanctuary and prob...   details Gee, E.P. 1950 Wild life reserves in India: Assam. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 49 (1): 81-89, pls. 1-2, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Diseases Indian Rhino The number of rhino in Kaziranga was believed to have been about 300 in 1940, when one could go in on insepction elephants and see a dozen quite easily. Nowadays, however, a similar visit would produce only half that number, and a number of rhino are known to have died of anthrax in 1947 - no le...   details Assam Forest Department 1950 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1949-1950. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department 1949 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1946-47. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Graham, R. 1949 Great Indian Rhinoceros (for the Brookfield Zoo). Parks & Recreation, American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums 32 (3) Mar: 172-176, 5 plates Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Captivity Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department 1948 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1945-46. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department 1947 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1944-45. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino [21] Many people visited the Kaziranga Sanctuary during the year as is judged by the view permit and elephant hire revenue of Rs. 1,485. One party from the 11th to the 19th March saw 30 rhinoceros, 80 buffaloes, 1 elephant and numerous deer, etc. Visitors were mainly Military and as the Office...   details Assam Forest Department 1941 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1940-1941. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department 1939 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1938-1939. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department; MacKarness, C.G.M. 1938 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1937-1938. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Administration 1937 Progress report of forest administration for the year 1935-1936 (review). Empire Forestry Journal 16: 150-151 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department; MacKarness, C.G.M. 1937 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1936-1937. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Borah, M.I. 1936 Baharistan-i-Ghaybi. A history of the Mughal Wars in Assam, Cooch Behar, Bengal, Bihar and Orissa during the reigns of Jahangir and Shahjahan. Gauhati, Government of Assam, Dept. of Historical and Antiquarian Studies Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department; Milroy, A.J.W. 1936 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1935-1936. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department; Milroy, A.J.W. 1935 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1934-1935. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Sword, V.H. 1935 Baptists in Assam: a century of missionary service 1836-1936. New York, Conference Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam History Indian Rhino [16] The rhinoceros which is placed at the beginning of this chapter represents the Coat of Arms of Assam, although it is not very well known even to those who call themselves inhabitants of the Province. It is a pity that there is no motto attached, as a very good one was suggested, namely: Arva...   details Minto, Mary Caroline Countess of 1934 India Minto and Morley 1905-1910 : compiled from the correspondence between the Viceroy and the Secretary of State with extracts from her Indian journal. London, Macmillan Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino February 11 [1909]. We have had three thrilling days in the jungle at Lahapara in Assam, the Maharajah of Cooch Behar kindly undertaking to make all arrangements. The first day we went after tiger. I cannot describe the tensity of anticipation and silence as the beat gradually creeps nearer and n...   details Milroy, A.J.W. 1934 The preservation of wild life in India, no 3 Assam. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37 (1) Suppl: 97-104 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Asian Rhino Species THE PRESERVATION OE WILD LIFE IN INDIA. No. 3. ASSAM. A. J. W. MiLROY. - (Conservator of Forests, Assam). The question of affording adequate protection to game in Assam is a difficult one that we cannot expect will receive much local attention just now with so many important political ch...   details Assam Forest Department; Milroy, A.J.W. 1934 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1933-1934. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department; Milroy, A.J.W. 1933 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1932-1933. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department; Owden, J.S. 1932 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1931-1932. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department; Milroy, A.J.W. 1931 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1930-1931. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department; Milroy, A.J.W. 1930 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1929-30. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino [p.4] 20. The question of game preservation in Assam is one that deserves to be taken up again (it might prove finally) in view of the pace at which the Unclassed State Forests are disappearing before advancing settlement, and of the failure of many Divisional Forest Officers to recognize their r...   details Assam Forest Department; Cavendish, P.H. 1929 Quintennial review of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the years 1924-25 to 1928-29, with the Progress report of forest administration for 1928-29. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Conservation Indian Rhino p.8 A confiscated rhinoceros horn weighing 40 tolas has been sold by auction for Rs. 600 in Darrang. Almost every portion of a rhinoceros has a ready market value, the dried blood being especially prized. It can therefore be easily understood why poaching is so rife, and if adequate measures are ...   details Willcocks, J. 1925 The romance of soldiering and sport. London, Cassell, pp. 1-341 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Kauffmann, O. 1923 Aus Indiens Dschungeln: Erlebnisse und Forschungen (zweite erweiterte Ausgabe). Bonn und Leipzig, Kurt Schroeder, pp. 1-387 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Mills, J.P. 1922 The Lhota Nagas. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xxxix, 1-255 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Names in vernacular Asian Rhino Species Molung   details Hamilton, F.S. 1921 Here, there and everywhere . London, Hodder and Stoughton: pp. i-xii, 1-303 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Administration; Blunt, A.W.; Todd, F.H. 1919 Progress report of Forest Administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1918-1919. Shillong, Assam Secretariat Printing Office, pp. 1-29, 1-59, 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino In Goalpara a bull rhino was shot by a member of a shikar party entertained by the Raja of Gauripur. On the latter reporting the fact to the Deputy Commissioner the latter ordered the payment of Rs 300 as compensation while the trophy was confiscated and sold.   details Assam Forest Administration; Blunt, A.W. 1918 Progress report of Forest Administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1917-1918. Shillong, Assam Secretariat Printing Office, pp. 1-29, 1-49, 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino [part 2, p. 4] List of RESERVED FOREST in Eastern Circle Division Sibsagar, Civil district Sibsagar and Naga Hills, Reserved Forest: Kaziranga Area on 1 July 1917: 68,609 acres, or 107 sq.miles. Area added during the year 37,529 acres. Area on 20 June 1918: 106,138 acres, or 166 sq.mile...   details Nuttall, W.M. 1917 Fauna: pp. 631-640 In: Playne, S. Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa: their history, people, commerce, and industrial resources. London, Foreign & Colonial Compiling & Publishing Co. Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Taxonomy Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Assam Forest Administration; Blunt, A.W. 1916 Progress report of Forest Administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1915-16. Shillong, Assam Secretariat Printing Office, pp. 1-24, 1-55, 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino 65. In Kamrup a rhinoceros was shot in the North Kamrup Reserve. The case was complicated but finally a suitable fine was recovered from the various persons implicated and the gun was confiscated.   details Allen, B.S. 1915 Assam District Gazetteers, vol. 7: Sibsagar. Calcutta Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Bombay Natural History Society 1914 Contributions to the Museum. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23 (2): 383-384 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution - Records Indian Rhino Horn. Locality: Assam. Collected by: Mr. F.W. Gore, 1910. Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay, India.   details Bombay Natural History Society 1914 Contributions to the Museum. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23 (2): 383-384 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Museums Indian Rhino Horn. Locality: Assam. Collected by: Mr. F.W. Gore, 1910. Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay, India.   details Assam Forest Department 1914 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1913-1914. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino [28] Two additions to the reserved forests in Darrang and one in Nowgong with a view to the protection of big game are in progress, while a set of close seasons has been prescribed under Act VIII of 1912 and is being re-issued under the Assam Forest Regulation for reserved and unclassed forests. ...   details Lydekker, R. 1913 Catalogue of the heads and horns of Indian big game bequeathed by A.O. Hume to the British Museum (Natural History). London, British Museum (Natural History), pp. i-xvi, 1-45 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution - Records Indian Rhino Mounted head. Locality: Assam. Collected by: A.O. Hume, 1912. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 1912.10.31.105   details Lydekker, R. 1913 Catalogue of the heads and horns of Indian big game bequeathed by A.O. Hume to the British Museum (Natural History). London, British Museum (Natural History), pp. i-xvi, 1-45 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Museums Indian Rhino Mounted head. Locality: Assam. Collected by: A.O. Hume, 1912. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. Catalogue number: 1912.10.31.105   details Grey, L.J.H. 1912 Tales of our grandfather: or, India since 1865. London, Smith, Elder & Co., pp. i-xvi, 1-307 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Bombay Natural History Society 1909 Contributions to the Museum. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 19 (3): 770 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution - Records Indian Rhino Head, skull. Locality: Assam. Collected by: A. Butcher, 1909. Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay, India.   details Bombay Natural History Society 1909 Contributions to the Museum. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 19 (3): 770 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Museums Indian Rhino Head, skull. Locality: Assam. Collected by: A. Butcher, 1909. Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay, India.   details Anonymous 1909 Record rhino shot: Biggest specimen known bagged in Assam. Straits Times, Singapore 17 May 1909: 8 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino 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   details Anonymous 1909 The game preserves of Assam. Forest and Stream 73 (26): 1036-1037 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Conservation Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Shikar 1909 A record rhino [shot by T. Briscoe in Assam]. The Englishman (Calcutta) Tuesday 4 May 1909: 3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Morphology - Horn Indian Rhino 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 ...   details Black, W.G. 1908 Winter days in India and elsewhere. Glasgow, James Maclehose Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino [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.   details Allen, B.S. 1908 Assam District Gazetteers, vol. 8: Lakhimpur. Calcutta, City Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino (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...   details Hunter, W.W. 1908 The Imperial Gazetteer of India, vol. VI: Argaon to Bardwan. New edition. Oxford, Clarendon Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Allen, B.S. 1906 Assam District Gazetteers, vol. 7: Sibsagar. Allahabad, Pioneer Press, pp. 1-323 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino 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.   details Assam Government 1906 Provincial gazetteer of Assam. Shillong, Eastern Bengal and Assam Secretariat Printing Office Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino [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...   details Allen, B.C. 1905 Assam district gazetteers, vol. 5. Darrang. Allahabad, Pioneer Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino [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.   details Kenshaw, L.J. 1905 2441R - Notification of the proposed reserved forest in North Kamrup. Assam Government Proceedings 1905 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Conservation Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Allen, B.C. 1904 Assam district gazetteers, vol. 4. Kamrup. Allahabad, Pioneer Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino [17] Rhinoceros live in the swamps that fringe the Brahmaputra and the Manas, and in the sparsely populated tracts in the north-west corner of the district, but they are now becoming very scarce. They breed slowly, and, as the horn is worth more than its weight in silver, and the flesh is prized ...   details Assam Forest Department 1903 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1902-1903. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Conservation Indian Rhino It is under contemplation to fully protect this Bijni area. Any further expenditure, however, on its protection from a puely forest improvement point of view is open to serious argument on the score of expense, Ot is thought perhaps, however, that it may be undertaken in the interests of natural ...   details Arbuthnott, J.C. 1903 Letter No. 77 dated Jowai, 28 August 1903, to the Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Assam, on establishing an asylum for the rhinoceros. Assam Secretariat Proceedings September 1905, p.2 (reproduced in Choudhury 2019:29) Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Conservation Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department 1902 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1901-1902. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino [7] of the two fires which occurred in the Bijni reserve - the partially protected area - the first one, covering an area of 9,600 acres, is attributed to shikaris who, it is thought, intentionally set fire to it in order to destroy cover which might have formed a harbour for game that was being ...   details O.W. 1902 North Assam as a shooting ground. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News 1902 February 22: 952 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Arbuthnott, J.C. 1902 Letter No. 75 (No.2409G) dated Gauhati, 4 November 1902, to the Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Assam, on destruction of the rhinoceros. Assam Secretariat Proceedings September 1905 (reproduced in Choudhury 2019:28) Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Conservation Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Assam Forest Department 1901 Progress report of forest administration in the Province of Assam for the year 1900-1901. Shillong, Assam Government Press Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Pollok, F.W.T. 1894 Incidents of foreign sport and travel. London, Chapman and Hall, pp. i-vi, 1-427 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Lewis, Lt-Col. 1893 My first and only rhinoceros hunt. The Boy's Own Paper, London 1893 September 16, issue 766: 811 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution - Hunting Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Sclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution - Records Indian Rhino Skull, skeleton incomplete. Locality: Gauhati, Assam. Collected by: F.T. Pollok. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India. Catalogue number: c   details Sclater, W.L. 1891 Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Calcutta, Indian Museum, vol. 2, pp. i-xxix, 1-375 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Distribution - Records Indian Rhino Skull. Locality: Gauhati, Assam. Collected by: Museum coll., 1868. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India. Catalogue number: p   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (4) 1 2 3 4