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File AvailableFavre, P. 1850 Voyage dans le Johore (Djohore). Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Paris (3) 13: 269-292
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
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Asian Rhino Species
[About Johore] I was told that in the densest and most remote parts of the forests there were rhinoceros, but I have never seen one.
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File AvailableBunbury, C.J.F. 1848 Journal of a residence at the Cape of Good Hope; with excursions into the interior, and notes on the natural history, and the native tribes. London, John Murray, pp. i-xii, 1-297
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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Black Rhino
The rhinoceros and buffalo still exist there; but the former, the most dangerous of all the wild beasts of this country, is become extremely rare.
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File AvailableJunghuhn, F. 1847 Die Battalander auf Sumatra: im Auftrage Sr Excellenz des General-Gouverneurs Hrn P Merkus in den Jahren 1840 und 1841 untersucht und beschrieben Aus dem hollandischen Original ubersetzt vom Verfasser, I Chrographie. Berlin, G. Reimer, pp. i-viii, 1-300
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Sumatran Rhino
On the mountain Lubu Radja, in Upper Ankola, Batta countries. Tracks of elephants are found at 3500 feet height, but those of a small kind of tiger and rhinoceroses still at higher places. The latter have made paths, which in many places form 2 feet deep swamps between the trees.
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File AvailableTemminck, C.J. 1847 Coup-d'oeil general sur les possessions neerlandaises dans l'Inde archipelagique. Leiden, A. Arnz and Comp., vol. 2, pp. i-viii, 1-471
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Asian Rhino Species
It has not yet been clearly shown that Borneo has neither elephant nor rhinoceros, in view of the fact that the mountainous parts in the north and in the interior have never been traversed, but in all places where travellers whom we can trust or where they could ask the locals, there is not yet a...
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File AvailableButler, J. 1847 A sketch of Assam, with some account of the hill tribes. London, Smith, Elder and Co, pp. i-vi, v-x, 1-220
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Indian Rhino
rhinoceros very numerous in many parts of Assam.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1847 Report for the months of December 1846 and January and February 1847. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 16 (1): 209-211
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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand
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Asian Rhino Species
Donations, 1. From E. O'Ryley, Esq. of Amherst, portions of two skeletons, with the skulls of Rhinoceros Sumatrensis; one of these skulls belonging to the individual, the skin of whose head was lately forwarded by Mr. O'Ryley.
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File AvailableButler, J. 1847 A sketch of Assam, with some account of the hill tribes. London, Smith, Elder and Co, pp. i-vi, v-x, 1-220
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Indian Rhino
Rhinos are tamed in a few months and may be seen at Gowahatty grazing on the plains as harmless as cows, guarded by a single man. When they are tame, they can be bought for 100-150 rupees. Many have been sent to Calcutta where they fetch 500 rupees.
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File AvailableTemminck, C.J. 1847 Coup-d'oeil general sur les possessions neerlandaises dans l'Inde archipelagique. Leiden, A. Arnz and Comp., vol. 2, pp. i-viii, 1-471
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Asian Rhino Species
The rhinoceros of Sumatra differs from those in Java and India.
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File AvailableCantor, T. 1846 Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and islands. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 15: 241-279
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Sumatran Rhino
Skull, head. Locality: Tenasserim provinces. Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, India.
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File AvailableGray, J.E. 1846 Catalogue of the specimens and drawings of Mammalia and Birds of Nepal and Thibet, presented by B.H. Hodgson to the British Museum [2nd edition, 1863]. London, Trustees of the British Museum, pp. i-xii, 1-156
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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Indian Rhino
Skull. Locality: Nepal. Collected by: B.H. Hodgson. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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