 | Schouteden, H. 1927 Les rhinoceros congolais. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Bulletin du Cercle Zoologique Congolais) 4 (1): 19-30, figs. 1-3 |
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| Name cottoni dedicated to that eminent english sportsman, Major Powell Cotton, who was one of the first to bring specimens to Europe (one of which was offered to our museum in Tervuren). |
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| Dollman, J.G. 1921 Catalogue of the Selous collection of big game in the British Museum (Natural History). London, Trustees of the British Museum., pp. i-vii, 1-112 |
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| Synonyms of Rhinoceros simus.
Rhinoceros simus, Burchell, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1817, p. 97 ; Travels in S. Africa, vol. ii. p. 75, 1824.
Ceratotherium simum, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 1027 ; Cat. Carnivora, etc., Brit. Mus. p. 319, 1869 ; Hand-List Thick-skinned Mamm, Brit. Mus. p. 52,... |
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| Dollman, J.G. 1921 Catalogue of the Selous collection of big game in the British Museum (Natural History). London, Trustees of the British Museum., pp. i-vii, 1-112 |
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| Synonyms of Rhinoceros bicornis.
1. Rhinoceros (Diceros) bicornis bicornis
Rhinoceros bicornis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i. p. 56,1758; ed. 12, vol. i. p. 104,1766.
Diceros bicornis, Gray, Med. Repository, vol. xv. p. 306,1821.
Rhinoceros (Diceros) bicornis, Ward, Records of Big ... |
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| Lydekker, R. 1916 Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in the British Museum (Natural History), vol 5: Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs, rhinoceroses), Hyracoidea (hyraxes), Proboscidea (elephants) with addenda to the earlier volumes. London, Trustees of the British Museum, pp. 46-58 |
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| The alleged existence of a two-horned species allied to R. unicornis in the Singpho district, east of Assam, is noticed in Game Animals of India, p. 32. |
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| Hose, C.; MacDougall, W. 1912 The pagan tribes of Borneo: a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition with some discussion of their ethnic relations. London, MacMillan, vol. 1, pp. i-xv, 1-283 |
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| In Borneo the rhinoceros (R. borniensis, closely allied to R. sumatranus). On p.143 noted presence of a small rhinoceros (R. sumatranus). |
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| Schouteden, H. 1911 Le rhinoceros blanc. Revue Zoologique Africaine 1: 118-124, pl. 6, fig. 1 |
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| The museum in Tervuren has a head of this species donated by Mr. Brichart, in which the second horn is much longer than the anterior one, but that animal was killed in British East Africa. That head should belong to Rhinoceros bicornis Holmwoodi. |
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| Lydekker, R. 1905 The Singpho rhinoceros. Field, the country gentleman's magazine 106 (2743), 1905 July 22: 152 |
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| Some months ago I was informed by a Gentleman, then recently returned from Upper Burma, that, according to native reports, there exists in the Singpho country a rhinoceros of larger size than either the two-horned Rh. sumatrensis or the single-horned R. sondaicus. For this animal, according to m... |
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| Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 |
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| Some naturalists have recently adopted Diceros bicornis as the scientific name of the black rhinoceros. |
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| Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 |
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| In 1812 Dr. Burchell found the white rhinoceros abundant in the Batlapin country, near Letakoo (Kuruman), the species being first met with in 26 deg. S. latitude. Science is indebted to Burchell for the first definite account of Rhinoceros simus: a short description of the animal, which he comm... |
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| Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 |
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| A number of long slender horns were sent some years ago by the late Mr. F. Holmwood and assigned to a hypothetical Rhinoceros holmwoodi. They have not only been supposed to indicate a species allied to the white rhinoceros but the holmwoodi horn now exhibited in the mammal gallery of the Natural... |
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