 | Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 |
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| The natives assert that a third horn is sometimes met with and in one of the young specimens procured an indication of the kind was observed. |
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| Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 |
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| The female has a longer and heavier head than the male, but is similar in other respects. |
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| Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 |
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| The skin of the Sumatran rhinoceros is much softer and more flexible than that of the Indian and is not corrugated into plates of mail. It has however some doublings or folds, particularly round the neck, shoulders and haunches, rather more distinct and defined than in Dr. Bell's drawing. |
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| Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 |
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| The female has a longer and heavier head than the male, but is similar in other respects. |
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| Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 |
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| The skin of the Sumatran rhinoceros is much softer and more flexible than that of the Indian and is not corrugated into plates of mail. It has however some doublings or folds, particularly round the neck, shoulders and haunches, rather more distinct and defined than in Dr. Bell's drawing. |
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| Pander, C.; Alton, E. d' 1821 Der vergleichende Osteologie, erste Abtheilung: Die Skelette der Pachydermata abgebildet, beschrieben und verglichen. Bonn, Eduard Weber, pp. i-iv, 1-26, pls. 1-2 |
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| Anonymous 1818 The rhinoceros. Asiatic Journal 6: 295 |
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| [Questioning if a musket=ball would penetrate the hide of a rhinoceros] I remember having the opportunity of making the experiment on the carcase of an old animal of uncommon size, which had been killed near Givalpara on the border of the wild country of Asam, a spot where rhinoceroses abound. [T... |
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| Tourniaire 1816 Ein prachtiges mannliches Nashorn oder Rhinoceros . Pamphlet, pp. 1-11, fig. 1 |
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| Spix, J.B. 1815 Cephalogenesis. Monachii, Franciscus Seraphicus Huebschmannius, pp. i-vi, 1-72, i-vi |
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| Anonymous 1814 Natuurkundige beschrijving van den eenhoornigen rhinoceros, of Aziatischen Neushoren (Rhinoceros unicornis L.). Letterkundig Magazijn van Wetenschap, Kunst en Smaak 1814: 405-407 |
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