Shikar, 1909. A record rhino [shot by T. Briscoe in Assam]. The Englishman (Calcutta) Tuesday 4 May 1909: 3
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Asia - South Asia - India - Assam |
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Morphology - Horn |
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Indian Rhino |
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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 to this the biggest existing specimen. In height the rhino stood 6 feet 4 inches [193 cm] at the shoulder, measured between two stakes one driven at the shoulder and the other at the foot, and not with a tape from foot to shoulder as is sometimes done. I can personally vouch for the above dimensions as although I had not the good fortune to be in at the death I was on the spot a couple of hours afterwards and myself undertook the measuring. Mr. T. Briscoe, formerly a planter in the Tezpur district, who was fortunate enough to kill this magnificent beast “on his lonesome” wished to have no part in the determining of the measurements. It is satisfactory to relate that this record rhino was slain in the orthodox way after a long track and an exciting finish, in which the odds on the result were fairly evenly divided between an angry bull rhino on his native heath, in this case a kwing waste, of unburnt nullah jungle, and a keen sportsman on an elephant anything but staunch.
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A record rhino [shot by T. Briscoe in Assam]
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