 Reference Base  Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist |
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Medway, Lord, 1965. Mammals of Borneo: field keys and an annotated checklist. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 36 (3): i-xi, 1-193, figs. 1-9, map 1, pls. 1-34
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak |
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Distribution - Records |
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Sumatran Rhino |
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In Sarawak, Banks (1931a) found it `hard to give any exact localities but they occur in the mountainous region in the Lawas interior, various places in the far interior of the Baram and Rejang Rivers, occasionally straying as far down as the Ulus [i.e. upper reaches] of Mukah and Oya but is [sic] not found on the left bank of the Rejang or down into Saribas and Sarawak proper'. Some, sixty years earlier Beccari, who had spent most of his time in 1865 - 1867 in the southwestern parts of present Sarawak, `once heard that the carcase of a rhinoceros had been seen in the Sarawak, carried down by the current', but otherwise never saw `any portion of one got in Borneo' (Beccari, 1904: 311). Banks concluded, rather surprisingly in the light of his own evidence, that `there can at the moment be no fear of Rhinoceros becoming scarce for as many as 36 trophies were brought into Belaga in two years not so long ago and I have met men who have claimed to have shot over 30 in the course of their lifetime' (Banks, 193la:20). Eighteen years later, Harrisson (1949) wrote, `there are now almost certainly no rhinoceros left in Sarawak'
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