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On a new species of rhinoceros |
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Gray, J.E. |
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1854 |
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Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |
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1854 November 28 |
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250-251, fig. 1 |
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| Horn. Collected by: Mr Cross, 1854. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. |
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| Horn. In coll. Edward Cross, London, United Kingdom. |
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| Horn. Collected by: Mr Cross, 1854. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| The late Mr. Cross, of Exeter Change and the Surrey Zoological Gardens, much prized a specimen of the horn of a Rhinoceros, which for many years formed part of his collection, and which he considered as indicating the existence of a hitherto unrecorded species of that genus.
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| Horn black; trunk very slender, tapering, smooth, rather compressed at the end, curved nearly into a semicircle; base rather thick, subquadrangular, rugose. |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| (First description Rhinoceros crossii.)
The late Mr. Cross, of Exeter Change and the Surrey Zoological Gardens, much prized a specimen of the horn of a Rhinoceros, which for many years formed part of his collection, and which he considered as indicating the existence of a hitherto unrecorded spe... |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Type specimen of Rhinoceros crossii.
Horn black; trunk very slender, tapering, smooth, rather compressed at the end, curved nearly into a semicircle; base rather thick, subquadrangular, rugose.
Length of the horn along the curve alone 31 ? in.
Length of the cord from base to tip 24 in
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On a new species of rhinoceros
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