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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.

Exhibition and remarks upon a skin of a young rhinoceros from the Sunderbunds

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Location Museums Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Sunderbunds. In coll. W. Jamrach, London, United Kingdom

Note
Location Museums Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Sunderbunds. In coll. W. Jamrach, London, United Kingdom

Note
Location Museums Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1876

Mr Sclater exhibited the skin of a young rhinoceros belonging to Mr. W. Jamrach, female, captured in the Sunderbunds, near the Ray Mangal river in May 1876.

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Location Museums Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

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

Note
Location Museums Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

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

Note
Location Museums Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1876

Mr Sclater exhibited the skin of a young rhinoceros belonging to Mr. W. Jamrach, female, captured in the Sunderbunds in May 1876 and brought immediately to calcutta, where it only lived 24 hours.

Note
Location Museums Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Mr Sclater exhibited the skin of a young rhinoceros belonging to Mr. W. Jamrach, female, captured in the Sunderbunds. Mr Sclater called attention to the folds in the skin, which were eactly those of R. sondaicus, though it remained to be proved whether the rhinoceros of the Sunderbunds was really identical with the Malaccan and Javan forms.

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