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Sclater, P.L., 1876. Exhibition and remarks upon a skin of a young rhinoceros from the Sunderbunds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876 November 7: 751
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Morphology - Horn |
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Javan Rhino |
Mr Sclater exhibited the skin of a young rhinoceros belonging to Mr. W. Jamrach, female, captured in the Sunderbunds. According to Mr. Jamrach's information, the females of the species obtained in the Sunderbunds were entirely destitute of any horn, which would appear not to be the case in the Javan animal.
The Rhinoceros inermis of Lesson (Compl. Aux oeuvres de Buff. Ed.2, vol. 1, p.514) appears to have been based on such a female
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