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Reference Base  Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the... |
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Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923 |
| Author(s): |
Faunthorpe, J.C. |
| Year published: |
1924 |
| Journal: |
Natural History |
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24 (2) |
| Pages: |
174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Status
Indian Rhino
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| Rhinoceros unicornis now survives in British territory only in a small portion of the Assam province. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Hunting
Asian Rhino Species
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| Vernay Expedition. The Governor of Burma, Sir Harry Butler has given special permission to Mr Arthur S. Vernay, who is now collecting for the American Museum in Burma and Siam to take specimens for that institution. If Mr Vernay can get these rhino specimens, he will be lucky. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Rhinoceros unicornis formerly abundant in the swampy country of the Tarai all the way from north Oudh to Assam. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| The rhinos have been slaughtered to such an extent that last year the Burmese Government prohibited the shooting of rhinos altogether. Whether this prohibition will be effective, in view of the difficulty of supervision over the tracts where they still survive, remains to be seen. |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Its survival in Nepal is due solely to the fact that in that country it is considered royal game and is rigorously preserved. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| As regards British territory, only a few still survive in Assam. |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| That enlightened ruler, my friend His Highness Maharajah Sir Chandra Shumshere Jung of Nepal, fully appreciated the importance of the expedition. He first arranged that we should visit the tract of country where His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and staff had recently shot tiger and rhino, ... |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| In the Morang District of the Nepal Tarai this rhinoceros was plentiful not many years ago, but now not a single specimen is, I believe, to be found within two hundred miles. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| Both Dicerorhinus sumatrensis and Rhinoceros sondaicus |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
Distribution - Records
Indian Rhino
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| Even in Nepal, the rhino is rapidly diminishing in numbers. |
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