Prater, S.H., 1980. The book of Indian animals. Bombay etc., Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, pp. i-xxiii, 1-324
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Three species of rhinoceros are found within our limits. Rhinoceros unicornis and its relative Rhinoceros sondaicus have an obscure genealogical history. No representatives of these true and typical rhinoceroses have been discovered anywhere but in south-eastern Asia. Their remains are not found in the more ancient Siwalik beds. But they appear with relative suddenness in the uppermost and more recent beds in the form of two species known as the Siwalik Rhinoceros (R. sivalensis) and R. paloeindicus, the ancient rhinoceros of India.
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