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Lydekker, R., 1907. The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) |
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Distribution - Records |
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Asian Rhino Species |
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According.to native reports, there exists in the Singpho country a rhinoceros of larger size than either the two-horned Rhinoceros sumatrensis or the single-horned R. sondaicus. For this animal the natives have a name distinct from those which they apply respectively to the two species just named, and they further describe it as being of huge size, comparing it in this respect with an elephant. Now the Singpho country, which is the area marked in the Times Atlas as the dis- trict inhabited by the Kachins or Singphos (Kakhyens), is the tract lying on the headwaters of the Chindwin River, this being separated from the north-eastern extremity of the Assam Valley only by the Naga-Hills and the Patkai Range. Consequently, the suggestion naturally arises that the Singpho rhinoceros may be a representative of the great Indian Rhinoceros unicornis, whose chief habitat at the present day is the Assam Valley.
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