File AvailableBaldwin, J.H. 1877 The large and small game of Bengal and the North-Western provinces of India, 2nd ed. London, Henry S. King and Co, pp. i-xxiv, 1-380
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
A young tea-planter near Tezpore had charge of a fine elephant for the use of his garden, but occasionally took him out for shooting purposes. On returning one evening from the. jungle, he came across two rhinoceri. He fired at and struck one, and followed it up into a swamp; suddenly he came u...
  details

File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1876 Exhibition and remarks upon a skin of a young rhinoceros from the Sunderbunds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876 November 7: 751
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - India - West Bengal
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Sunderbunds. In coll. W. Jamrach, London, United Kingdom
  details

File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Rhinoceros javanicus lives in the mountains of the Preanger and is not uncommon. It is less known in the eastern part of Java.
  details

File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The people of Danau Sriang told me that the rhinoceros lives on the mountains, but not near the lakes.
  details

File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
If the rhinoceros has one or two horns here, the stories are not clear. If there are two horns, it would be like the species of Sumatra, Rh. Sumatranus. Gray believes in a one-horned species in Borneo which he caled Rh. frontalis.
  details

File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
The rhinoceros lives both on the east and on the west coast.
  details

File AvailableMorice, A. 1876 Voyage en Cochinchine pendant les annees 1872-73-74. Lyon, H. Georg, pp. 1-44
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - East Asia - Cambodia
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Visiting the Tiams or Chams near Tayninh I saw hunters who have poor rifles but shoot elephant and rhinoceros. There was a rhinoceros which had killed D?molis.
  details

File AvailableMorice, A. 1876 Voyage en Cochinchine pendant les annees 1872-73-74. Lyon, H. Georg, pp. 1-44
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - East Asia - Indochina
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
The Phuquoc in Indochina. On the island of Phuquoc lives another legendary animal, which is a rhinoceros with a horn which is illuminated at night. Nobody has ever found a trace.
  details

File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
On Sumatra lives a double-horned species Rh. Sumatranus, and also, it seems, a single-horned one called Rh. Floweri Gray.
  details

File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1876 Exhibition and remarks upon a skin of a young rhinoceros from the Sunderbunds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876 November 7: 751
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
Mr Sclater exhibited the skin of a young rhinoceros belonging to Mr. W. Jamrach, female, captured in the Sunderbunds, near the Ray Mangal river in May 1876.
  details

File AvailableBrooks, H. 1876 Natal; a history and description of the colony, including its natural features, productions, industrial conditions and prospects. London, L. Reeve and Co, pp. i-xi, 1-336
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
The rhinoceros has quite disappeared from Natal, although some of them may still be met within an easy ride on the Zulu-land side, beyond the Tugela.
  details

File AvailableMartens, E. von 1876 Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien, nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil, erster band, Allgemeines und Wirbelthiere. Berlin, Ober-Hofdruckerei, pp. i-xii, 1-412
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Rhinoceros javanicus lives in the mountains of the Preanger and is not uncommon. It is less known in the eastern part of Java.
  details

File AvailableBradley, J. 1876 A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. London, Samuel Tinsley, pp. i-vi, 1-338
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
In 1869, near Lahaing, between the Thungyen and Menam rivers. As we were crossing a small plain towards evening, three rhinoceroses came in sight. We could not get near enough for a shot. On the River Menam, a solitary rhinoceros was seen. Very shortly afterwards, a small herd of five rhinoce...
  details

File AvailableBradley, J. 1876 A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. London, Samuel Tinsley, pp. i-vi, 1-338
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
A few miles from River Menam, we met with a large single-horned animal, which was shot.
  details

File AvailableHarmand 1876 Voyage au Cambodge. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (6) 12: 337-367
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - East Asia - Cambodia
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
The governor of Tonle-Repau, who lives at Nlong-Prea, a poor hamlet in the forest, has 400 men paying taxes. This he pays at Bangkok, annually 25-26 bars of gold (about 200 francs of our money), together with some gifts which include tusks of elephants, horns of the rhinoceros, etc.
  details

File AvailableMorice, A. 1875 Coup d'oeil sur la faune de la Cochinchine francaise. Lyon, H. Georg, pp. 1-101
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Skull. Locality: French Cochinchina. In Natural History Museum, Lyon, France.
  details

File AvailableMorice, A. 1875 Coup d'oeil sur la faune de la Cochinchine francaise. Lyon, H. Georg, pp. 1-101
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - East Asia - Indochina
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
The rhinoceros is not very common.
  details

File AvailableMorice, A. 1875 Coup d'oeil sur la faune de la Cochinchine francaise. Lyon, H. Georg, pp. 1-101
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - East Asia - Indochina
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
The rhinoceros in Cochinchina is large and has only one horn, which is not very much developed. This is Rhinoceros sondaicus of which one was collected for Museum Lyons.
  details

File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1875 Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the upper horn of a two-horned rhinoceros from the Valley of the Brahmapootra. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875 November 16: 566
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Exhibited the upper horn of a two-horned rhinoceros shot in March 1875 by Lieut.Col. C. Napier Sturt, in the valley of the Brahmapootra, about 40-50 miles north-east of Dohbree, in company of Mr. Archibald Campbell, Deputy-Commissioner of Dohbree, and Mr. Williamson, Governor of the Towra Hills. ...
  details

File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1875 Exhibition of a drawing of a supposed new rhinoceros from the terai of Bhootan. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875 February 16: 82
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Mr Slater exhibited a drawing of a supposed new rhinoceros from the terai of Bhootan, which had been forwarded to him from Calcutta by Mr. William Jamrach, and read extracts from a letter addressed to him by Mr Jamrach on the subject. Mr Jamrach at the date of his letter (Jan. 16, 1875) was leav...
  details

File AvailableMorice, A. 1875 Coup d'oeil sur la faune de la Cochinchine francaise. Lyon, H. Georg, pp. 1-101
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - East Asia - Cambodia
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Rhinoceros sondaicus in Tay-ninh.
  details

File AvailableMorice, A. 1875 Coup d'oeil sur la faune de la Cochinchine francaise. Lyon, H. Georg, pp. 1-101
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - East Asia - Indochina
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Rhinoceros sondaicus in Ba-riah.
  details

File AvailableMerensky, A. 1875 Beitraege zur Kenntnis Sued-Afrikas, geographischen, ethnographischen und historischen Inhalts. Berlin, Verlag des Missionshauses, pp. i-iv, 1-171
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
In areas where there are elephants, the rhinoceros is still found. As they are more stupid and fatter than the elephant, they are easier to exterminate.
  details

File AvailableBartlett, A.D. 1874 Exhibition of a rhinoceros-horn from Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 499
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Horn. Locality: Borneo. Coll. Bartlett, London, United Kingdom
  details

File AvailableBartlett, A.D. 1874 Exhibition of a rhinoceros-horn from Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 499
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Mr. Bartlett remarked that these specimens left no doubt of the existence in Borneo of a Rhinoceros which was probably allied to R. sondaicus, but of smaller dimensions.
  details

File AvailableEverett, A.H. 1874 Notes

In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
and the country at the head of the Rejang, i.e. for the last five days of its course, would seem to be well suited to be the habitat of this bulky herbivore, being described as destitute of any settled human population, and as affording stretches of tolerably level and grassy country which afford...
  details

File AvailableEverett, A.H. 1874 Notes

In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
The general close affinity between the faunas of Borneo and Sumatra suggests that a Bornean Rhinoceros would be found to be furnished with two horns; and, in fact, natives describe it as being so. It is very long since I have seen the horns of any species of Rhinoceros; but, so far as my memory ...
  details

File AvailableEverett, A.H. 1874 Notes

In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
but there is reason to believe that the animal is distributed (though not abundantly) throughout the upper course of the Rejang, Kapuas, Koti, Balungan, and, perhaps, all the larger streams of the island.
  details

File AvailableEverett, A.H. 1874 Notes

In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
`I have forwarded to you, through Dr. Jessopp, of Norwich, two Rhinoceros-horns, obtained in the Bazaar at Sibu, the principal station of the Sarawak Government in the Rejang river. These specimens, together with three others, the largest of which, measured perpendicularly, stood 8 ? inches hig...
  details

File AvailableEverett, A.H. 1874 Notes

In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
but there is reason to believe that the animal is distributed (though not abundantly) throughout the upper course of the Rejang, Kapuas, Koti, Balungan, and, perhaps, all the larger streams of the island.
  details

File AvailableEverett, A.H. 1874 Notes

In: Wallace, A.R. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
but there is reason to believe that the animal is distributed (though not abundantly) throughout the upper course of the Rejang, Kapuas, Koti, Balungan, and, perhaps, all the larger streams of the island.
  details

File AvailableRohlfs, G. 1874 Quer durch Afrika: Reise vom Mittelmeer nach dem Tschad-See und zum Golf von Guinea. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, vol. 1, pp. i-x, 1-352
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Western Africa - Chad
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
At lake Chad, rhinos and elephants are rather uncommon.
  details

File AvailableNewman, E. 1874 Rhinoceros sondaicus at the Zoological Gardens. Zoologist (2) 9: 3949-3952
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Turning again to the ' Zoologist,' it is recorded by Mr. Arthur Adams, at p. 7328 of the volume for 1861, that at Mew Bay, in Java, near the Straits of Sunda, `the ground is literally ploughed up by the tracks of these unwieldy brutes.' The brutes in question beyond doubt this species, Rhinoceros...
  details

File AvailableGarnier, F. 1874 Apercu sur le royaume de Siam. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (6) 7: 503-509
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Rhinoceros [and others] are found on the Malaysian peninsula.
  details

File AvailableForsyth Major, C.J. 1874 Sopra alcuni Rinoceronti fossili in Italia. Bollettino del Regio Comitato Geologico d’Italia, Tipogr. di G. Barbèra, Roma: (1-2), pp. 94-97.
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Europe
Distribution - Records
Fossil
No details available yet
  details

File AvailableGarnier, F. 1873 Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine effectue pendant les annees 1866, 1867 et 1868 par une commission francaise. Paris, Hachett et Cie, vol. 1, pp. i, i-v, 1, 1-580
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - East Asia - Laos
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Rhinoceros horns are among the products of the wild tribes living in the mountains around the left bank of the [Mekong] river, and this forms together with their other products about half of the business in Bassac, Attopeu, Stung Treng and Khong.
  details

File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1872 Announcement of the addition to the Society's collection of a female Sumatran Rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 20: 185
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - Bangladesh
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
On 15 Feb. 1870 was purchased from Mr. Wm. Jamrach for o 1250 a fine female specimen of Rhinoceros sumatrensis from Chittagong.
  details

File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1872 On Rhinoceros lasiotis. Athenaeum 1872 August 24 (no. 2339): 243
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - Pakistan
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
In answer to Colonel Strachey, Dr Sclater said that nothing was known of the rhinoceros which within the historic period existed on the Indus; but the examination of caves might bring some of its remains to light.
  details

File AvailableGrant, J.A. 1872 Summary of observations on the geography, climate, and natural history of the Lake region of Equatorial Africa, made by the Speke and Grant expedition, 1860-1863. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 42: 234-342
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
Rhinoceros bicornis was found on the route between Ugogo and Karagweh. Speke shot the first by moonlight at Ugogo. We have seen during a march in Usui as many as 8 or 10 feeding separately in the valley. Rhinoceros simus is found in Karagweh where seve
  details

File AvailableGrant, J.A. 1872 Summary of observations on the geography, climate, and natural history of the Lake region of Equatorial Africa, made by the Speke and Grant expedition, 1860-1863. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 42: 234-342
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Rhinoceros simus. At Delagoa Bay we saw a horn upwards of a yard in length.
  details

File AvailableAnderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Since writing the above, I have learned from my friend Lieut. Bourne that a smooth-skinned Rhinoceros is said by the Cossyahs to occur in their hills, two days' journey to the south of Charyolah. These men know Rhinoceros sondaicus, so that it seems very probable that R. sumatrensis extends into ...
  details

File AvailableAnderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
There is no previous record of this Rhinoceros having been found so far west* [* In the 'Mammals of India' it is stated to have been shot at as high a latitude as 23' N., near Sandoway, which, however, lies only between the 18th and 19th parallels N.] as Chittagong, about 92? E. long.; but I see ...
  details

File AvailableAnderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
It is also probable, as Blyth observes, that it ranges into Assam, because, while at Bbamo in Upper Burniah, I was informed by an intelligent native that two-horned Rhinocerotes are found in the Mogonny district, which is close to the confines of Assam, and as far north as the twenty-sixth degree...
  details

File AvailableAnderson, J. 1872 Notes on Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Cuvier. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872 February 6: 129-132
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
It is also probable, as Blyth observes, that it ranges into Assam, because, while at Bbamo in Upper Burniah, I was informed by an intelligent native that two-horned Rhinocerotes are found in the Mogonny district, which is close to the confines of Assam, and as far north as the twenty-sixth degree...
  details

File AvailableMacMaster, A.C. 1871 Notes on Jerdon s Mammals of India (by an Indian sportsman and lover of natural history). Madras, Higginbotham, pp. i-vi, 1-266
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
I have twice while looking for elephant come upon a rhinoceros, perhaps the same animal in both cases, in a large swamp, in the dense forest north of Shuay Gheen in Burmah, and not far from the beautiful Bogatha stream, but although we must each time have been within a few yards of him as he was ...
  details

File AvailableMacKenzie, J. 1871 Ten years North of the Orange River: a story of everyday life and work among the South African tribes from 1859 to 1969. Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, pp. i-xx, 1-523
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Evening of Tuesday 19 August 1863. Proceeding a little farther, I saw a black rhinoceros cow with its calf, the latter of which was baited by the dogs. I came up just in time to see one of my dogs tossed into the air by the enraged mother. Sadly shaken, but with no bones broken, 'Celt' crept a...
  details

File AvailableMarsh, O.C. 1870 Remarks on Hadrosaurus minor, Mosasaurus crassidens, Liodon laticaudus, Baptosaurus, and Rhinoceros matutinus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia; XXII: 2-3.
Location:
Subject:
Species:
America - North America
Distribution - Records
Fossil
No details available yet
  details

File AvailableBlyth, E. (Zoophilus) 1869 Animals of Burma. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 34, 1869 October 16: 334
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Specimen unspecified. Locality: Tenasserim. Collected by: Dr Oldham, 1850. In coll. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
  details

File AvailableGray, J.E. 1869 Catalogue of carnivorous, pachydermatous and edentate mammalia in the British Museum. London, Trustees of the British Museum, pp. i-vii, 1-398
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Skeleton. Sex: Female. Locality: Abyssinia. Collected by: Mr Jesse. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  details

File AvailableGray, J.E. 1869 On the incisor teeth of the African rhinoceros. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 March 11: 225
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Skull. Sex: Female. Locality: Abyssinia. Collected by: Mr Jesse. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  details

File AvailableJesse, W. 1869 Remarks upon the Abyssinian expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 January 28: 111-117
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Skeleton. Locality: Bejook on river Anseba. Collected by: Jesse, 1868. In coll. Jesse, United Kingdom
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
From the upper Kosanga River I received horns which probably belong to R. africanus.
  details

File AvailableFraser, W.T. 1869 The present existence of the rhinoceros in Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 November 25: 529
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Secretary [P.L.Sclater] in London receibed a letter from W.T. Fraser of Soerabaya, Java, dated 30 Aug 1869: `I duly received your note of the 30 April regarding the existence of the Rhinoceros in Borneo. There have been lately arrivals of several prahus from Koeti and I have been able to questio...
  details

File AvailableBlyth, E. [Zoophilus] 1869 Rhinoceros horn toppling forward. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 34,1869 September 4: 192
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In November 1861, a rhinoceros was killed not five miles from here, in Upper Martaban near the Shan frontier.
  details

File AvailableJesse, W. 1869 Remarks upon the Abyssinian expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 January 28: 111-117
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
18 July 1868 - banks of Anseba River - the spoor of elephants, black rhinoceros, and lions were plentiful along the banks. On 19 July 1869 we left Bejook for Walliko, seeing on the road plenty of spoor of Elephant and Rhinoceros. From Walliko we crossed over to Gabena Weld Gonfallon, or the riv...
  details

File AvailableJesse, W. 1869 Remarks upon the Abyssinian expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 January 28: 111-117
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
14 July 1868 - proceeded over the pass to Bejook on the river Anseba. On the 14 th July we went out in pursuit of a Rhinoceros we had heard of the day before, and which Mr Blanford and I had the good fortune to shoot.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Congo (Zaire)
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
In Congo no rhinoceros seems to occur.
  details

File AvailableBlanford, W.T. 1869 Exhibition of heads of Rhinoceros keitloa, and Phacochoerus aelani, and of some skins of hyraces. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869: 432
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Exhibited a head of a rhinoceros, Rhinoceros keitloa ?, obtained by him during the late Abyssinian expedition.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1869 Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Leipzig and Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, pp. i-xii, 1-382
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
In the region of the White Nile two species of rhinoceros would occur: one the common black rhinoceros R. africanus, the other the probably lighter R. simus.
  details

File AvailableBlyth, E. [Zoophilus] 1869 Rhinoceros horn toppling forward. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 34,1869 September 4: 192
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
I was favoured with a skull of Rhinoceros sondaicus that had been shot near Tavai Point, where a small colony of that species exists.
  details

File AvailableBlyth, E. [Zoophilus] 1869 Rhinoceros horn toppling forward. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 34,1869 September 4: 192
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
A rhinoceros was recently seen in Southern Tenasserim by the Chief Commissioner. Dr Oldham shot one in Tenasserim (cf. Mason 1850), the specimen of which is now in the Museum of Trinity College, Dublin.
  details

File AvailableSclater, P.L. 1868 On additions to the Society's Menagerie, and report on Leconte's expedition to the Falkland Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868 November 12: 526-530, pl. 41
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Purchased 11 Sep 1868, a young male Rhinoceros bicornis. Purchased for the Society of Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, originally captured on 12 Feb 1868 by the Arabs of the Beni-Ammer tribe, in the vicinity of Casala, in Upper Nubia, and sold by them to Herr Casanova, an enterprising traveller of Vienna.
  details

File AvailableMurray, A. 1868 Collingwood's rambles in the Chinese sea. Journal of Travel and Natural History 1: 363-378
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Rhinoceros nasalis is said to be from Borneo, which is an unlikely locality. It would be rash to conclude that the rhinoceros is a native of Borneo.
  details

File AvailableBlyth, E. 1868 Rhinoceros horns. Journal of Travel and Natural History 1: 130-131
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Blyth recently killed a male, juvenile of R. sumatranus with small sized horns, obtained in the Yunzalia District of the Province of Martaban.
  details

File AvailableBickmore, A.S. 1868 Travels in the East Indian Archipelago. London, John Murray, pp. 1-555
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
This species of rhinoceros has two horns, the first being the longer and more sharply pointed, but the Java species has only one.
  details

File AvailableBickmore, A.S. 1868 Travels in the East Indian Archipelago. London, John Murray, pp. 1-555
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In the valleyof the Musi, all the region we have been travelling in today on 27 April, abounds in rhinoceroses, elephants and deer.
  details

File AvailableBickmore, A.S. 1868 Travels in the East Indian Archipelago. London, John Murray, pp. 1-555
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
On our return from Agar Sumpur we noticed the tracks of a rhinoceros, tiger and deer which had all passed along that way last night.
  details

File AvailableBlyth, E. 1868 Rhinoceros shedding their horns. Journal of Travel and Natural History 1: 70
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
In Tenasserim he had seen old rhinoceroses with very small horns, and it occurred to him as not impossible that those might have shed their old horn, and that the horns they bore were young ones just grown.
  details

File AvailableGilbert, T. 1868 Notes sur l'Abyssinie. Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (5) 15: 48-77
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Province of Walgayt, west of Waldibba and Talamt, is cut through by two rivers, the Toukour and Tangue. In the forests there are elephants, rhinoceros, leopards, hyenas and other wild beasts.
  details

File AvailablePerelaer 1867 Twaalfhonderd palen door Midden Java. Militaire Spectator (3) 12: 547-555
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
A few years ago the Regent of Poerwokerto shot a rhinoceros on the slopes of the Slamat and he showed us the skull of the animal. In view of the size of the skull, it must have been a huge animal.
  details

File AvailablePerelaer 1867 Twaalfhonderd palen door Midden Java. Militaire Spectator (3) 12: 547-555
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
In 1856, on the Radja Bassa in the Lampongs, a military bataillon encountered a rhinoceros while searching for an enemy in the forest. The animal got away.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Opsiceros keitloa. In eastern Abyssinia and also in the Kolla countries of North and West Abussinia, up to a height of 7000 feet. In April 1853 Heuglin and his men shot an adult rhinoceros in the Kolla countries of West Abyssinia, which certainly is this species. Peters might have seen it in M...
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Opsiceros bicornis The species occurs in the provinces Taka, Sennaar and Kordofan, especially along the Bahr-el-abiad and its western tributaries, where it is especially numerous.
  details

File AvailableJagor, F. 1866 Singapore - Malacca - Java: Reiseskizzen. Berlin, Julius Springer, pp. i-vi, 1-252
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Next day we climbed the Slamat, on which slopes there is a village called Priatin at 4000 ft. The climb would be much more difficult without the tracks of the rhinoceroses, which in easy curves wind up to the summit of the mountain. These animals must be very common here, as we saw a lot of the...
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Opsiceros keitloa. In eastern Abyssinia and also in the Kolla countries of North and West Abussinia, up to a height of 7000 feet.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Opsiceros bicornis. This rhinoceros occurs on the coast of eastern Abyssinia.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Opsiceros bicornis. The species occurs in the provinces Taka, Sennaar and Kordofan, especially along the Bahr-el-abiad and its western tributaries, where it is especially numerous.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Opsiceros keitloa. It is probably this same species which occurs in the Somali countries, because Heuglin heard people talk of a rhinoceros, which they called `Wuiel' and which would differ from other species by having one horn very long, the other short.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Dicerorhinus cucullatus. It occurs in the mountains of Abyssinia and it was found in Schoa by Harris and Dr Roth.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Heuglin was unable to enumerate all species of rhinoceros occurring in the southern Sudan. However, from a large number of horns which he saw, as well as observing one adult and one young animal, the following species can be mentioned. 1. Opsiceros keitloa A. Smith - in North and West Abyssinia...
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Opsiceros bicornis. The species occurs in the Habab countries northwards up to Sauakin or the 18th longitude north.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Opsiceros bicornis. Many of the horns seen by Heuglin and especially those from the mountains on the west bank of Lake Tana, undoubtedly belong to this species.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Opsiceros bicornis. The species occurs in the provinces Taka, Sennaar and Kordofan, especially along the Bahr-el-abiad and its western tributaries, where it is especially numerous.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Opsiceros bicornis. The species occurs in the provinces Taka, Sennaar and Kordofan, especially along the Bahr-el-abiad and its western tributaries, where it is especially numerous.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Opsiceros simus. On the Bahr-el-abiad, this is the common species, of which Heuglin obtained horns up to 3 3/4 feet length.
  details

File AvailableHoevell, W.R. van 1866 Uit het Indische leven. Zaltbommel, Joh.Noman en Zoon, pp. i-v, 1-270
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
We saw the fresh tracks of a rhinoceros.
  details

File AvailableHeuglin, T. von 1866 Systematische Uebersicht der Saugethiere Nordost-Afrika's mit Einschluss der Arabischen Kuste, des Rothen Meeres, der Somali- und der Nilquellen-Landern, sudwarts bis zum vierten Grade nordlichen Breite. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1866: 537-611
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Opsiceros simus. A young animal from Albana near Galabat, which Heuglin had alive for one day, seems to belong to this species judging from the colour and the horns.
  details

File AvailableJunghuhn, F. 1866 Licht- en schaduwbeelden uit de binnenlanden van Java, 4th edition. Amsterdam, F. Gunst, pp. i-iv, 1-412
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Found skeletons of rhino in the valley of the Tji-Ikal river.
  details

File AvailableBaker, S.W. 1866 On the tributaries of the Nile in Abyssinia. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 10 (6): 279-295
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
(Travel following the baks of the Settite River into the uninhabited district of Abyssinia and the Base country). Variety of game - afforded elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, rhinoceros, lions.
  details

File AvailableBaker, S.W. 1866 On the tributaries of the Nile in Abyssinia. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 10 (6): 279-295
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
(Travel towards Guddabi) country teeming with giraffes and antelopes, with a sprinkling of rhinoceros and elephants.
  details

File AvailableBeavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
Bhotan, one of the localities in which it is found, is a large independent state on the north-east frontier of Bengal, most of it a terra incognita to Europeans, owing to the strictly exclusive Indo-Chinese policy exercised by its rulers. The author was for some months stationed at the little ou...
  details

File AvailableDusseau, J.L. 1865 Musee Vrolik: catalogue de la collection d'anatomie humaine, comparee et pathologique de MM. Ger. et W. Vrolik, professeurs a l'Athenee Illustre d'Amsterdam. Amsterdam, W.J. de Roever Kroeber, pp. i-xvi, 1-464
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
Skull. Locality: Java. Collected by: Mr. List. In coll. G. Vrolik, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Catalogue number: 406.18
  details

File AvailableDusseau, J.L. 1865 Musee Vrolik: catalogue de la collection d'anatomie humaine, comparee et pathologique de MM. Ger. et W. Vrolik, professeurs a l'Athenee Illustre d'Amsterdam. Amsterdam, W.J. de Roever Kroeber, pp. i-xvi, 1-464
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
2 skulls. Locality: Java. Collected by: Mr. Wassink. In coll. G. Vrolik, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Catalogue number: 406.17
  details

File AvailableDusseau, J.L. 1865 Musee Vrolik: catalogue de la collection d'anatomie humaine, comparee et pathologique de MM. Ger. et W. Vrolik, professeurs a l'Athenee Illustre d'Amsterdam. Amsterdam, W.J. de Roever Kroeber, pp. i-xvi, 1-464
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Skeleton. Locality: Cape of Good Hope. In coll. G. Vrolik, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Catalogue number: 723.9
  details

File AvailableBeavan, R.C. 1865 The rhinoceros in Bhotan (Rhinoceros indicus, Cuv). Intellectual Observer 6: 170-174
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Stationed in the village of Julpigoria, an outposton this frontier, situated on the banks of the Teesta. Expedition into Bhutan in May. On return, in a small patch of reeds near a swamp, we came across a herd of 7-8 rhinos. R. fired right and left and to our intense astonishment, down dropped ...
  details

File AvailableGorkom, K.W. van 1865 Jaarlijksch berigt over 1864, aangaande den toestand der kinakultuur op Java. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie 28: 241-265
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
A few months ago, on the Tangkoeban-Praoe, one of the oldest specimens of kina succirubra, although surrounded by a strong fence, was destroyed by a rhinoceros.
  details

File AvailableLioy, P. 1865 Sopra un dente di Rinoceronte fossile trovato nell' arenaria grigia di Bolzano. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali 8: 415-417
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Europe - Southern Europe - Italy
Distribution - Records
Fossil
Details: Rhinoceros schleiermacheri Kaup; on the same remains, vide autem in Lioy (1865), in Stefanini (1916) and in Dal Piaz (1916).
  details

File AvailableSclater, P.L.; Speke, J.H. 1864 On the mammals collected and observed by Capt J.H. Speke during the East African expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864 March 8: 98-106, pls. 12-13
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
Ceratotherium simum. The White Two-Horned rhinoceros is found in Karagweh, where several specimens were shot. It is rather larger than the black animal.
  details

File AvailableSteudner, H. 1864 Herrn Dr Steudner's Bericht uber seine abessinische Reise. Zeitschrift fur Allgemeine Erdkunde (N.F.) 17: 22-50
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
The Dabeina region goes from Raschid to the Atbara and includes Kassala, Mandera, Rera. The Sheik of the village, Achmed Wod Abu Sin told us about the animals. According to him, elephant, rhino [Rhinoceros] and lion are absent here, but they are numerous on the Atbara, and also on the Dender an...
  details

File AvailableSteudner, H. 1864 Herrn Dr Steudner's Bericht uber seine abessinische Reise. Zeitschrift fur Allgemeine Erdkunde (N.F.) 17: 22-50
Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
The Dabeina region goes from Raschid to the Atbara and includes Kassala, Mandera, Rera. The Sheik of the village, Achmed Wod Abu Sin told us about the animals. According to him, elephant, rhino [Rhinoceros] and lion are absent here, but they are numerous on the Atbara, and also on the Dender an...
  details