Milroy, A.J.W., 1932. Game preservation in Assam. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 16: 28-38
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Asia - South Asia - India |
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Distribution - Records |
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Asian Rhino Species |
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It is on record that Rowland Ward identified the head and shield from a rhino shot by a Forest Officers in the Bengal Dooars as belonging to this species, and it would be strange if it did not also occur in the contiguous Goalpara and Monas Sanctuary. Pairs of smaller, less truculent, and definitely less armoured rhino can be put up in the Sanctuary, and these, if not cases of Rhinoceros unicornis pairing while still far from mature, must be specimens of Rhinoceros sondaicus . The Kacharies recognize three varieties of rhino, and though their classification is not made on scientific lines, it does not follow therefrom that it is all moonshine.
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