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Flower, S.S. 1900. On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900 April 3: 306-379, fig. 1.

On the mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Skin, no horn. Sex: Female. Locality: Laos. Collected: 1897. In coll. Siamese Museum, Bangkok, Thailand

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Skull. In coll. Perak Museum, Malaysia

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Skull - sumatrensis. Perak Museum, Malaysia

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Skull. In coll. Perak Museum, Malaysia

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Skull. In coll. Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

60 horns. In coll. , no data. In Siamese Museum, Bangkok, Thailand.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Skeleton. In coll. Raffles Museum, Singapore

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Skull - lasiotis. Perak Museum, Malaysia

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1897

Skin, no horn. Sex: Female. Locality: Laos. Collected: 1897. In coll. Siamese Museum, Bangkok, Thailand

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1897

Skin, no horn. Sex: Female. Locality: Laos. Collected: 1897. In coll. Siamese Museum, Bangkok, Thailand

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Badak

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Badak

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1897

A young female, just dead, was brought to the Siamese Museum on 10 Feb 1897, which I was told had been brought from the Laos country, and had died on reaching Bangkok. No horn.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1900

Mr Ridley (JSBRAS, 1894) mentions having seen tracks of some species of rhinoceros in the Tahan River woods, Pahang, where he also heard the animal at night.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1900

An Englishman once told me he had seen tracks of rhinoceros on Gunong Jerai (Kedah peak) at several thousands feet above the sea.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1900

W.L.Sclater (Cat.Mamm.1891) records specimens from Malacca

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1900

In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish in colour.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Rat

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1900

Mr Ridley told me that in 1896 he saw a rhinoceros in the Dindings.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1900

In Perak, English friends have told me, rhinoceroses were not uncommon till 3 or 4 years ago in the Larut Hills, above 4000 feet.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1900

Sclater (1875) mentions a rhinoceros of this species ?captured in the Sunghi-njong (probably Sungei-Ujong) district of Malacca' and says other specimens ?from the same district or the neighbouring territory of Johore were imported into Europe.'

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1900

Mr. T.ff.Carlisle, H.B.M. Consular Service, wrote from Baw Yakar, Pailin, Battambong Province, Siam, 4 Feb 1899, that he `met an old Shan hunter here who has shot both the one-horned and the two-horned rhinoceros.'

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Female Rhinoceros sondaicus in Siamese Museum There was no horn.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

An Englishman once told me he had seen tracks of rhinoceros on Gunong Jerai (Kedah peak) at several thousands feet above the sea. In Perak, English friends have told me, rhinoceroses were not uncommon till 3 or 4 years ago in the Larut Hills, above 4000 feet.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Malaysia. In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish in colour. The 'Bada Api' or 'Fire Rhinoceros' of the malays is probably a red variety of this species.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Female Rhinoceros sondaicus in Siamese Museum. Colour uniform dusky grey.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Female Rhinoceros sondaicus in Siamese Museum There was no horn.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Malaysia. In the south of Perak, a friend told me he had once seen a rhinoceros in a swamp, it was reddish in colour. The 'Bada Api' or 'Fire Rhinoceros' of the malays is probably a red variety of this species.

Note
Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Female Rhinoceros sondaicus in Siamese Museum. Colour uniform dusky grey.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1897

A young female, just dead, was brought to the Siamese Museum on 10 Feb 1897, which I was told had been brought from the Laos country, and had died on reaching Bangkok. No horn.

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Location India Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1900

I have been told that it is more profitable for a Malay, if he happens to catch one of these animals in a pitfall, to kill it and sell the remains to the Chinese, than to sell the whole animal to a European.

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