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Wroughton, R.C. 1915. Bombay Natural History Society. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23 (4): 695-720.

Bombay Natural History Society

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Specimen unspecified. Sex: Female. Locality: Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Collected by: Bombay Nat Hist Soc survey, 1914. Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay, India. Catalogue number: 4714

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis) Year 1914

Specimen unspecified. Sex: Female. Locality: Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Collected by: Bombay Nat Hist Soc survey, 1914. Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay, India. Catalogue number: 4714

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis) Year 1914

Specimen unspecified. Sex: Female. Locality: Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Collected by: Bombay Nat Hist Soc survey, 1914. Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay, India. Catalogue number: 4714

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Badak raya

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis) Year 1914

Results NBHS Mammal Survey. Shot 1 female, near Bankachon. Specimen 4714, 17 miles inland from Victoria Point, Southern Tenasserim, 7 Jan 1914

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Inside of ears, lower throat, and under part around limbs tinged with dull flesh colour. General colour slate black, although appearing lighter during life owing to a thin and probably permanent coating of dry mud.

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Kyan-chyaw

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Ceratorhinus blythii synonym of sumatrensis Cuvier

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Skin folds not very marked though easily felt, particularly on the shoulders.

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Tail very much compressed laterally at end.

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Iris, dark brown

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Inside of ears, lower throat, and under part around limbs tinged with dull flesh colour. General colour slate black, although appearing lighter during life owing to a thin and probably permanent coating of dry mud.

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Iris, dark brown

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Skin folds not very marked though easily felt, particularly on the shoulders.

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Tail very much compressed laterally at end.

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar Length of head, tip of nose to between ears, up and down horns, 760 mm idem, not up and down horns, 680 mm

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar Extreme length, tip of nose / up and down horns to tip of tail, 3265 mm Tip of nose to root of tail, up and down horns, 2600 mm Tip of nose to root of tail, not up and down horns, 2520 mm

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Length of anterior horn, around front curve, 130 mm

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar Height from shoulders to tip of longest toe, 1440 mm Height of withers to tip of longest toe, 1530 mm

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Ceratorhinus niger Gray, 1873 synonym of sumatrensis Cuvier

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Rhinoceros crossei [sic] Gray 1854, synonym of sumatrensis

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Length of tail, 665 mm

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Girth of neck, halfway between head and shoulders, 1095 mm Girth behind shoulders, 2145 mm Girth in front of hind quarters, 2290 mm

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Ear, 175 mm

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Location Myanmar Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Female shot 1914 at Bankachon, Mergui District, S. Myanmar. Hind foot, from hock to tip of longest nail, 420 mm Girth of fore foot, 550 mm Girth of hind foot, 538 mm Girth of foreleg halfway above the knee, 565 mm Girth of hind leg halfway above hock, 525 mm

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