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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - East Asia - China
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Asian Rhino Species
The discovery of the formerly supposed exclusively insular Rhinoceros sondaicus on the Burmese mainlandm casts a doubt upon which is the Chinese species noticed by Duhalde to inhabit the province of Quang Si in latitude 25 degrees.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Asian Rhino Species
Whether more than one rhinoceros exists in Borneo, we have at present no data for forming an opinion.
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Asian Rhino Species
Mus. Asiatic Society, Calcutta. The fact of all the three of the Asiatic species of this genus inhabiting Tenasserim, was first made known in Dr Helfer's list of the animal productions of that region, and that `a double horned rhinoceros is said to have been seen by the natives in the neighbourh...
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra
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Asian Rhino Species
Raffles said that Rhinoceros sondaicus did not occur in Sumatra. This may be doubted now that the R. sondaicus has proved to be common in Java and Tenasserim, and it appears probable, that while the latter only inhabits Java, it will be found to exist together with R. sumatrensis in Sumatra, as ...
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
Mus. Asiatic Society, Calcutta. From T.H. Maddock, four heads of rhinoceroses, from Tenasserim, two of them belonging to the common Indian species (Rh. Indicus), the two others to Rh. sumatrensis. The fact of all the three of the Asiatic species of this genus inhabiting Tenasserim, was first ma...
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File AvailableBlyth, E. 1842 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6 May 1842. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 444-470
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Asian Rhino Species
Museum Asiatic Society, Calcutta. From T.H. Maddock, four heads of rhinoceroses, from Tenasserim, two of them belonging to the common Indian species (Rh. Indicus), the two others to Rh. sumatrensis.
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File AvailableArbousset, T.; Daumas, F. 1842 Relation d'un voyage d'exploration au Nord-est de la Colonie du Cap de Bonne-Esperance, entrepris dans les mois de mars, avril et mai 1836. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, pp. i-xii, 1-620
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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Black Rhino
[Region east of Orange River] There are here two distinct species of rhinoceros. One is big, comparatively tame, called mogoufou; the other, smaller, greyer in colour than the other and nicknamed the brutal one or magale, because he is extremely ferocious.
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File AvailablePearson, J.T. 1840 Zoological catalogue of the Museum of the Asiatic Society. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 9 (1): 514-530
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Asia - South Asia - India
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Indian Rhino
Catalogue Asiatic Society, Calcutta. No. 31, an articulated skeleton, shot at Baugundee, in Jessore, by Mr J.H. Barlow and presented in his name to the Society in 1834.
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File AvailableMueller, S. 1839 Over de zoogdieren van den Indischen Archipel: pp. 1-57

In: Temminck, C.J. Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen, Zoologie. Leiden, S. and J. Luchtmans en C.C. van der Hoek: [not paginated]
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Javan Rhino
In a similarly uncertain way we heard from several Malays and Dayaks that there would be rhinoceroses in Borneo in some places. The same rumour was reported by earlier travellers and is found in Ritter's Erdkunde, although nobody says anything about the species. According to a rough sketch of a...
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File AvailableMueller, S. 1839 Over de zoogdieren van den Indischen Archipel: pp. 1-57

In: Temminck, C.J. Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen, Zoologie. Leiden, S. and J. Luchtmans en C.C. van der Hoek: [not paginated]
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
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Sumatran Rhino
According to a rough sketch of a Bejadjoe-Dayak, who said that he had seen once, when he was still young, a male rhinoceros in the upper reaches of the Kahayan River, the animal has the size of a large buffalo, and he has only one horn.
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