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Lydekker, R., 1907. The game animals of India, Burma, and Tibet, being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet'. London, Rowland Ward, pp. i-xv, 1-409
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal |
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Distribution - Records |
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Indian Rhino |
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Following the late Dr. W. T. Blanford, it is stated on page 30 that the range of this species is mainly, if not entirely restricted to the countries east of the Tista. Later information (see a letter from Col. Manners Smith in the Field for 1909, vol. cxiv. p. 177) shows that the animal abounds in parts of the Nepal Terai, where it seems to be more abundant than in its supposed last strongholds in Kuch Behar and Assam. During a rhinoceros hunt organised by the Nepal Government in January and February 1907, a large number of adults were killed and half-a-dozen calves captured alive.
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