3 skeletons. In Zoological Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2 skulls. In Zoological Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Skeleton. Locality: Java. In Zoological Museum, Berlin, Germany.
3 skulls. Locality: Java. In Zoological Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Skull. Locality: Sumatra. In Zoological Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Mounted hide. Sex: Male. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum Zoologicum Bogorienses, Bogor, Indonesia.
Mounted hide. Sex: Female. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum Zoologicum Bogorienses, Bogor, Indonesia.
Skeleton. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum Zoologicum Bogorienses, Bogor, Indonesia.
5 skulls. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum Zoologicum Bogorienses, Bogor, Indonesia.
2 heads. Sex: Male. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum Zoologicum Bogorienses, Bogor, Indonesia.
2 skulls. In coll. Museum Zoologicum Bogorienses, Bogor, Indonesia.
Skull. Locality: Indochina. In coll. Tonking native Chief, Son La, Indochina
Mounted skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Malaysia. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Skeleton. Locality: Malaysia. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Skull. Locality: Sumatra. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
2 skulls. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Mounted skin. In coll. National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
6 skulls. In coll. National Museum of Victoria
Skin. Locality: Java. In Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Head. Locality: Malaysia, Pinjih Valley, Perak. Collected by: George W. Maxwell, 1899. In Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Skull. Locality: Malaysia, Temoli. Collected by: G.F.W. Curtis, 1890s. Federated Malay States Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Mounted skin. Locality: Bengal. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Mounted skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Sunderbunds. Collected by: O.L.Fraser, 1872. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India.
Specimen unspecified. Locality: Malaysia, Sungai Bugis area between the Bernam River and the coast. Collected by: A.S. Vernay, 1933. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
Head. Sex: Female. Federated Malay States Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Head. Locality: Ujong Permatang, Selangor. In coll. Police Mess, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Specimen unspecified. Locality: Malaysia, Sungai Bugis area between the Bernam River and the coast. Collected by: A.S. Vernay, 1933. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
Skull, head. Sex: Female. Locality: Malaysia, Kuala Serukoi near Telok Anson, Perak. In Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Skull. Locality: Indochina. In coll. Tonking native Chief, Son La, Indochina
Head. Locality: Malaysia, Pinjih Valley, Perak. Collected by: George W. Maxwell, 1899. In Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Skull, head. Sex: Female. Locality: Malaysia, Kuala Serukoi near Telok Anson, Perak. In Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Skeleton. Locality: Jessore District. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India.
Mounted skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Sunderbunds. Collected by: J. Barckley, 1874. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India.
Mounted skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Burma, Victoria Point. Collected by: T.R. Hubback. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Mounted skin. Locality: Bengal. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Skeleton. Locality: Java. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Skull. Locality: Java. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Skull. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., USA
Mounted hide. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., USA
Fifty years ago these animals were numerous in the Annamite Chain and in the forests of Nord-Annam and Haut-Laos. They have been destroyed by the Meos, a mountain people who have imigrated from China in recent times. The Meos hunters search for them for the horn, used as a medicine. The value of the horns was so great that they figured in the tribute sent by the king of Luang-Prabang every year to the Emperor of China and the Emperor of Annam. At the present time in the royal marriages of Luang-Prabang a rhino horn frequently figures in the dowry of the young princesses.
Mounted skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Sunderbunds. Collected by: O.L.Fraser, 1872. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India.
Mounted skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Sunderbunds. Collected by: J. Barckley, 1874. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India.
Skeleton. Locality: Jessore District. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India.
Mounted hide. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., USA
Skull. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., USA
Mounted skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Sunderbunds. Collected by: O.L.Fraser, 1872. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India.
Skull. Locality: Malaysia, Temoli. Collected by: G.F.W. Curtis, 1890s. Federated Malay States Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Head. Sex: Male. Federated Malay States Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Head. Locality: Malaysia, Pinjih Valley, Perak. Collected by: George W. Maxwell, 1899. In Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Skull. Locality: Malaysia, Temoli. Collected by: G.F.W. Curtis, 1890s. Federated Malay States Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Rhinoceros sondaicus. Rhinoceros sondaicus is said to have been found in the Sikkim Terai. From the locality it is more likely to have been the Great Indian rhinoceros that was found here.
2 heads. Sex: Male. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum Zoologicum Bogorienses, Bogor, Indonesia.
Skeleton. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum Zoologicum Bogorienses, Bogor, Indonesia.
Mounted hide. Sex: Male. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum Zoologicum Bogorienses, Bogor, Indonesia.
Skeleton. Locality: Java. In Zoological Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Mounted skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Malaysia. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Skeleton. Locality: Malaysia. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Specimen unspecified. Locality: Malaysia, Sungai Bugis area between the Bernam River and the coast. Collected by: A.S. Vernay, 1933. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
Mounted skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Sunderbunds. Collected by: J. Barckley, 1874. In Indian Museum, Calcutta, India.
Mounted skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Burma, Victoria Point. Collected by: T.R. Hubback. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Mounted skin. Sex: Female. Locality: Burma, Victoria Point. Collected by: T.R. Hubback. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Head. Locality: Ujong Permatang, Selangor. In coll. Police Mess, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Skull. Locality: Sumatra. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Skull. Locality: Sumatra. In Zoological Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Skin. Locality: Java. In Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Skeleton. Locality: Java. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Skull. Locality: Java. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Mounted hide. Sex: Female. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum Zoologicum Bogorienses, Bogor, Indonesia.
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Info from E.M. de Villa of Hanoi. Rhinoceros and elephants appear to be found in the same hunting country, and both are met with between Kratie and Sung Treng, south of Saravane (in Cambodia - to the east of the Mekong) and in many places in Laos.
M.le R?sident Superieur au Cambodge, writing from Phnom-Penh states that enquiries gave the impression that there were no rhinos existing in Cambodia. During the last two years only two specimens, probably from Laos, had been seen by natives in the Kompong-Thom region. This is in Cambodia to the east of the Tonl? Sap lake.
3 skulls. Locality: Java. In Zoological Museum, Berlin, Germany.
5 skulls. Locality: Java. In coll. Museum Zoologicum Bogorienses, Bogor, Indonesia.
M.le R?sident Superieur au Cambodge, writing from Phnom-Penh states that enquiries gave the impression that there were no rhinos existing in Cambodia. During the last two years only two specimens, probably from Laos, had been seen by natives in the Kompong-Thom region. This is in Cambodia to the east of the Tonl? Sap lake.
Info from Dammerman. The species is now rare in Java: a few are said to live in the district south of Tasikmalaja (C. Java) and a few others south of Bantam (W. Java), whereas a dozen or more are found in Oedjoengkoelon.
Rhinoceros sondaicus. The species still occurs in some localities in South Sumatra in Palembang, but is very rare there.
Info from E.M. de Villa of Hanoi. On the west side of the Mekong, south of Oubon, in Siamese Laos, there is the `Pass of Elephants and Rhinoceros.'
M. Antoine Lagreze, the R?sident at Vinh in Northern Annam, states that during 1924 he located a band of rhinos in the province of Sam-Nua where formerly they abounded. By the appearance of the tracks, they had only been there some eight hours before. They were followed for several days without success and a bout of fever interupted the hunt.
M. Antoine Lagreze, the R?sident at Vinh in Northern Annam, who evidently knows something of the subject has written in some detail and summarises from his knowledge that several specimens still exist in the dense forests separating the provinces of Vinh and Thanh-Hoa in northern Annam. Also in the forests between the province of Luang-Prabang and the V?me military territory.
Info from E.M. de Villa of Hanoi. I am not sure about the elevation preferred by this animal. It is known and hunted on the Dar Lac Plateau at an elevation of about 3,000 feet, and last year some natives invited me to hunt a party of four rhinos near Cua Rao, about 100 feet above sea level.
As these provinces of China are adjacent to Burma and Tonkin it is possible that R. sondaicus may have occurred there or at least visited these countries. Knowing the value the Chinese place on the trophies, it may be supposed that any rhino so ill-advised as to enter these provinces would not remain alive very long.
In an interesting book by Colonel Pollock and W. S. Thom 'Wild Sports of Burma and Assam' many references to the existence of the Javan rhinoceros occur. Pollock writes: ' This animal extends through Assam, down Sylhet, the Garrow Hills, Tipperah, Chittagong, Arrakan and Burma to Malaya, and probably into Yunan and the western provinces of China.'
H. The Kuala Serukai Rhinoceros. In April 1924, a cow R.sondaicus was killed at Kuala Serukoi near Telok Anson in Perak. It made an attack on a Chinese coolie who was tapping jelutong in the forest. He was charged three times, tossed, and chased into the coolie lines. She was supposed to have killed a man earlier. Being, supposedly, a menace to the district, she was shot by a planter. As he was an unlicensed hunter and the matter had not been reported to the authorities, on news of the incident being received, the head skin and skull were confiscated and are now in the Selangor Museum. Soon after this Mr. E. Seimund in his capacity as Game Warden, visited the scene of the kill. I believe he found tracks of another adult and a calf, which if true, proves that sondaicus may have been breeding in the Malay Peninsula within no distant period.
Bordeneuve in Les Grandes Chasses en Indochine states that these animals are very scarce. In the following year 1900 he was told by the Cham mountaineers that the Siamese has killed a rhino within two kilometers of Tan-Linh. He considers that from the hunters point of view, the most likely place to find rhino is in South Indo-China: the country between Attopeau, the Mekong, North Cambodia and south of the Stien country.
Information from Dammerman. Oedjoengkoelon, the peninsula at the extreme western part of South Java. This peninsula has been set apart is a special reserve for the Java rhino. Both species of rhinoceros (R. sondaicus and sumatrensis) are now absolutely protected and the export both of living specimens and of skins or other body parts is prohibited.
M. Antoine Lagreze, the R?sident at Vinh in Northern Annam, who evidently knows something of the subject has written in some detail and summarises from his knowledge that several specimens still exist in the dense forests separating the provinces of Vinh and Thanh-Hoa in northern Annam. Also in the forests between the province of Luang-Prabang and the V?me military territory.
As these provinces of China are adjacent to Burma and Tonkin it is possible that R. sondaicus may have occurred there or at least visited these countries. Knowing the value the Chinese place on the trophies, it may be supposed that any rhino so ill-advised as to enter these provinces would not remain alive very long.
Bordeneuve in Les Grandes Chasses en Indochine states that these animals are very scarce. In 1899 he came across three rhinos, male, female and young, near the confluence of the Song-Dinh and the Song-Ray.
Info from E.M. de Villa of Hanoi. I am not sure about the elevation preferred by this animal. It is known and hunted on the Dar Lac Plateau at an elevation of about 3,000 feet, and last year some natives invited me to hunt a party of four rhinos near Cua Rao, about 100 feet above sea level.
Info from E.M. de Villa of Hanoi. Rhinoceros and elephants appear to be found in the same hunting country, and both are met with between Kratie and Sung Treng, south of Saravane (in Cambodia - to the east of the Mekong) and in many places in Laos. On the west side of the mekong, south of Oubon, in Siamese Laos, there is the `Pass of Elephants and Rhinoceros.'
M. Antoine Lagreze, the R?sident at Vinh in Northern Annam, who evidently knows something of the subject has written in some detail and summarises from his knowledge that several specimens still exist in the dense forests separating the provinces of Vinh and Thanh-Hoa in northern Annam. Also in the forests between the province of Luang-Prabang and the V?me military territory.
The Gouveneur General himself was good enough to institute enquiries and through his good offices His Excellency Tiao Phetsarath, Native Inspector of Political and Administative Affairs in Laos was able to send information of considerable interest. During the last few years, the only rhino he knew of that had been killed was at Traninh in January 1925, within three hours of the waterfall along the road from Xieng-Khounag to Vinh. None were known to have been captured for a long period.
Rhinoceros sondaicus - A. The ?Province Wellesley' Rhinoceros. The earliest specimen that we know of is in the collection of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Here amongst other skulls they have that of a very young sondaicus, killed by the side of its mother, on the Malay Coast opposite Penang, in 1816. Looking over from Penang to the Province Wellesley side at the present time it is hard to imagine that about 120 years ago these rhinos were to be found there.
In an interesting book by Colonel Pollock and W. S. Thom 'Wild Sports of Burma and Assam' many references to the existence of the Javan rhinoceros occur. Pollock writes: ' This animal extends through Assam, down Sylhet, the Garrow Hills, Tipperah, Chittagong, Arrakan and Burma to Malaya, and probably into Yunan and the western provinces of China.'
In an interesting book by Colonel Pollock and W. S. Thom 'Wild Sports of Burma and Assam' many references to the existence of the Javan rhinoceros occur. Pollock writes: ' This animal extends through Assam, down Sylhet, the Garrow Hills, Tipperah, Chittagong, Arrakan and Burma to Malaya, and probably into Yunan and the western provinces of China.'
Information from E.M. de Villa of Hanoi. `The one-horned rhinoceros (monocorne) is still to be found in several parts of Indo-China, being fairly well represented on both sides of the great Annamite ange, and both north and south of it. The animal lives in marshy bush and thick forest undergrowth, where the rattan-cane makes fast walking impossible and tracking very difficult and dangerous. The average size is about 7 feet in height and 11 feet in length. The single horn attains a length of about 3 feet on the male. The two-horned (bicorne) rhinoceros is unknown in this country, but on one occasion a hunter shot a small rhinoceros which had one horn perfectly developed and ad a second embryo horn.
M. J.Loupy, Commissaire du Gouvernment at Luangprabang in Laos, from enquiries from native authorities, thinks that no rhino has been met with during the last five years in the kingdom of Luangprabang. There are many stories current about them and natives affirm that they exist, but they are unable to give a single case of their capture or killing.
M. Antoine Lagreze, the R?sident at Vinh in Northern Annam, who evidently knows something of the subject has written in some detail and summarises from his knowledge that several specimens still exist in the dense forests separating the provinces of Vinh and Thanh-Hoa in northern Annam. Also in the forests between the province of Luang-Prabang and the V?me military territory.
Info from E.M. de Villa of Hanoi. Rhinoceros and elephants appear to be found in the same hunting country, and both are met with between Kratie and Sung Treng, south of Saravane (in Cambodia - to the east of the Mekong) and in many places in Laos.
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Badak Sumbu
Badak Gajah
Badak himpit
Rhinoceros sondaicus. The last specimen shot in the district - in fact in Burma, was obtained by Mr. Theodore Hubback in 1920, near Victoria Point, the extreme southerly point of the country. It is now in the British Museum, and though immature, was a full grown female five feet at the shoulder. According to Pollock and Thom, the Javan rhinoceros must have at one time been widely distributed in Burma.
Info from Mr. William W. Fegan of the `Bangkok Sport and Gossip' (1933). In more recent times I have heard of two of the animals having been seen in Eastern Siam, near the Meklong, but know nothing more about them. A Siamese official who had spent some years in this district told me that he had heard of the existence of seven or eight and he knew personally of two of them having been killed. The question of how many of the animals remain alive to-day in Siam is rather a mystery as in reality little interest is taken by the people in natural history and there is no museum here. However, nobody knows what the huge jungle stretches and the plateaux in Eastern Siam really contain in the way of large mammals as travel is difficult in many areas and not too pleasant.
A.S. Vernay, the well-known collector of big-game specimens, covered a good area of country, from Central to North-West Siam a few years ago when trying, I believe, to obtain a specimen of Schomburgk's Deer, which are rumoured still to exist, though none have been shot for twenty-five years. During the time he was in the field he could get no information that sondaicus was to be found still alive in the district visited. As will be shown later, this animal is known to exist in the forests of Laos in Indo-China, so that it is more than probable that it may still survive in Eastern Siam. The writer has not been able to locate any museum specimen of sondaicus actually killed in Siam.
Info from Mr. William W. Fegan of the `Bangkok Sport and Gossip' (1933). About the year 1886 a one-horn was captured and brought alive to Bangkok from a place near Krabin, to the west of the capital. It was kept in captivity here for some time ere it passed out.
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Rhinoceros sondaicus. In the Shwe-U-Daung Game Sanctuary in Upper Burma, it is hoped that a few may exist but it is unlikely.
Last record. It has not been possible to locate any references to sondaicus having been seen or shot in Assam during the present century, or to find out the date of when the last one was shot in the country. None of these animals are known to exist in Bengal or Assam at the present time.
In an interesting book by Colonel Pollock and W. S. Thom 'Wild Sports of Burma and Assam' many references to the existence of the Javan rhinoceros occur. Pollock writes: ' I may here mention about them in Assam - as I intend to give a short sketch of wild sport in that Province - that I shot there forty-four to my own gun, and probably saw some sixty others slain, and lost wounded full - as many as I killed.' The latter paragraph, no doubt, refers to all species of rhino. Colonel F. T. Pollock spent seven years, in the '60s, in Assam, and was an accurate observer and keen shikari. If one European can, in seven years, account for so many little wonder that the Javan rhinoceros is now extinct in the country. Most interesting accounts are given in this book of hunting the rhinoceros both in Assam and Upper and Lower Burma, but rarely is the species specified.
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Dindings Rhinos. Writing in the 'Times of Malaya' 9 Aug. 1932, Mr. Granville M. O'Hara states that in 1905, while stationed in the Dindings as a Forest Officer, he had the good fortune to be present at the trapping of a one-horned rhinoceros. He wrote an article 'Trapping of Rhinoceros in the Dindings, Straits Settlements' for the Indian Forester of July 1907. This describes how the animal was captured and removed from the depths of the jungle to the river bank by making it travel on foot carrying its own cage. The captured Javan rhinoceros mentioned above was sold at Penang to a Mohammedan merchant for the sum of S. $200. It was resold for S. $500 to another merchant in Singapore. It was later said to have been sent to Madras and sold there for Rs. 1,500. In 1907 the Government of the Straits Settlements made an order prohibiting the catching of rhinoceroses in the Dindings
In an interesting book by Colonel Pollock and W. S. Thom 'Wild Sports of Burma and Assam' many references to the existence of the Javan rhinoceros occur. Pollock writes: ' This animal extends through Assam, down Sylhet, the Garrow Hills, Tipperah, Chittagong, Arrakan and Burma to Malaya, and probably into Yunan and the western provinces of China.'
There have been rumours of the former existence of R. sondaicus in the forests of Orissa and about the delta of the Mahanadi River, in the Bay of Bengal. This has been discredited by some authorities and as specimens have not been seen by Europeans, we have now no means of ascertaining the truth.
A specimen taken at Manipur in 1874 was brought to London by the dealer Jamrach, and was later sent to the Berlin Zoological Gardens. It had been determined as R. sondaicus both in Berlin and London. Jamrach was not satisfied with this, and insisted that it represented a hitherto undescribed species. He finally described it himself as R. jamrachii ! The remains have apparently been lost.
info from Dammerman. The species is now rare in Java: a few are said to live in the district south of Tasikmalaja (C. Java) and a few others south of Bantam (W. Java), whereas a dozen or more are found in Oedjoengkoelon.
Rhinoceros jamrachii. A specimen taken at Manipur in 1874 was brought to London by the dealer Jamrach, and was later sent to the Berlin Zoological Gardens. It had been determined as R. sondaicus both in Berlin and London. Jamrach was not satisfied with this, and insisted that it represented a hitherto undescribed species. He finally described it himself as R. jamrachii ! The remains have apparently been lost.
Rhinoceros sondaicus - I. The Ujong Permatang Rhinoceros. In January 1928, a Police Officer stationed at Kuala Sciangor at the mouth of the Selangor River heard reports of an enormous animal that was destroying the Chinese gardens in the Ujong Permatang district some five miles to the north and on the other side of the river. It was said to have walked right through a Chinese kongsi house and to have caused considerable alarm in the locality. He therefore obtained the permission of the District Officer to shoot it. With an orderly he went out to search for it and on the same morning came across the animal bogged in one of the Government drains. He destroyed it with a shot gun. He took the head as a trophy and it was only later that when seen in a taxidermist's shop in Klang by Mr.P.R. Kemp that it was recognised as sondaicus. When the matter was reported to the Hon. Game Warden, he made, quite rightly, a considerable to-do about it, and the head was confiscated. It can now be seen in the police mess at Kuala Lumpur. It was certainly unfortunate that an animal of such rarity should have in ignorance been destroyed. An amusing feature of the affair was that hundreds of Chinese fell upon the remains and cut it up, collecting the blood and flesh as ?obat' or medicine. During the ensuing week or so, the police officer who shot the beast informed me there were continual rows and several court cases amongst the Chinese bargaining and quarrelling over the remains.
Rhinoceros sondaicus - F. The ?Pinji' Rhinoceros. In 1899, the famous ? Pinji ? rhinoceros was shot by Sir George W. Maxwell in the Pinji Valley, not a great distance from the Laliat Railway Station, in Kinta. The classic description of its exploits and the shooting of this animal may be read in Maxwell's, ? In Malay Forests ? a delightful little book published by Blackwood that one is never tired of re-reading. The old rhino had made his abode in the Pinji Valley and had been the terror of the district long before the British occupation of Perak in 1874. It was a ?kramat' animal impossible to kill and had killed at least three men on three separate occasions. All this is related in the story, It seldom left a circumscribed area of some forty square miles, and though many had tried to kill it it appeared to be invulnerable. We hear how a ?pawang' made a feast and invoked the Earth Spirits, asking them to give up the rhinoceros and to accept compensation. Starting from Guiiong Kroli a big limestone hill not many miles south of Ipoli, the animal was followed for two whole days, was shot it more tliziii once, and was finally killed on the third day not far from the Pinji village. The animal measured five feet five and a half inches at the shoulder, but this measurement taken when dead hardly did it justice. The horn was only 7 or 8 inches, a shapeless lump. The head of this famous beast may be seen in the Selangor Museum at Kuala Lumpur.
D. Batu Gajah Rhinos. Mr. B. H. F. Barnard, for many years a Forest Officer in Malaya, writing in the ?Malayan Forester' for July 1932 instances the shooting of two rhinos in 1897 by Mr. F. J. Weld formerly of the Malay Civil Service. This was at a spot about three miles from Batu Gajah on the road to Gopeng, in Kinta. He got them both in a morning. He had a shot at a rhino, it made off and he followed it. Soon after he came upon a rhino and killed it with another shot. Not finding any mark of his previous bullet he concluded that he must have encountered two animals and this proved to be correct as following up the tracks of the first he found the dead body soon afterwards. These are believed by Mr. Barnard to have been the Javan rhinoceros. From the locality it is more than likely that they were. What happened to the trophies is not known.
Info from Mr. William W. Fegan of the `Bangkok Sport and Gossip' (1933). As to the one-horned, I have been thirty-three years in this part of the world and have travelled over the major part of Siam and I have never yet met a man, native or European, who has shot one. Some twenty years ago two Europeans, surveyors, in the hilly district near the Three Pagodas, on the Siam-Burma frontier, tried to bag one but failed. It was later on trapped in a pitfall by the neighbouring tribesmen and I saw the horn and strips of the skin which were brought to a place called Kanburi.
G. Dindings Rhinos. Writing in the ?Times of Malaya' 9 Aug. 1932, Mr. Granville M. O'Hara states that in 1905, while stationed in the Dindings as a Forest Officer, he had the good fortune to be present at the trapping of a one-horned rhinoceros. He wrote an article ?Trapping of Rhinoceros in the Dindings, Straits Settlements' for the Indian Forester of July 1907. This describes how the animal was captured and removed from the depths of the jungle to the river bank by making it travel on foot carrying its own cage. Observations on the commercial value of the urine, dung, horns, etc., to the Chinese for medicinal purposes are all of considerable interest. Mr. O'Hara further states that when in the Dindings and the Bruas district of Perak, between 1905 and 1921, he met with no less than four of the one-horned variety and only one specimen of sumatrensis. It may be mentioned here that some thirty years ago or so, rhinoceroses were not uncommon in the Dindings district, and were often trapped bv the Malays. It was commonly supposed that they were all sumatrensis and there is still a small number of them left there. The captured Javan rhinoceros mentioned above was sold at Penang to a Mohammedan merchant for the sum of S. $200. It was resold for S. $500 to another merchant in Singapore. It was later said to have been sent to Madras and sold there for Rs. 1,500. In 1907 the Government of the Straits Settlements made an order prohibiting the catching of rhinoceroses in the Dindings. This was undertaken at the request of the Singapore Museum authorities.
Rhinoceros sondaicus - C. Temoli Rhinos. In the 1890s, Mr. G. W. F. Curtis, who was a settlement officer in Perak, shot more than one Rhinoceros sondaicus near Temoli. The skulls of these animals are believed to be in the Kuala Lumpur Museum.
info from Dammerman. whereas a dozen or more are found in Oedjoengkoelon, the peninsula at the extreme western part of South Java. This peninsula has been set apart is a special reserve for the Java rhino.
A few years ago I saw a newspaper reference to a young one-horned rhino having been captured in Patani, but it is more than likely it turned out to be a specimen of sumatrensis.
Info from Mr. William W. Fegan of the `Bangkok Sport and Gossip' (1933). I may state that both the one-horned and two-horned rhinoceros (R. sondaicus and R. sumatrensis) are to be found in Siam but, owing to the hunting by the hill tribes both are now extremely rare, so much so that some five years ago the killing of them was prohibited by the government. Their extermination was mainly due to the Chinese for their horns for medicinal purposes, the said horns being probably worth their weight in gold to-day. There has for many years been a special customs duty on them.
Info from Mr. William W. Fegan of the `Bangkok Sport and Gossip' (1933). I may state that both the one-horned and two-horned rhinoceros (R. sondaicus and R. sumatrensis) are to be found in Siam but, owing to the hunting by the hill tribes both are now extremely rare, so much so that some five years ago the killing of them was prohibited by the government.
Rhinoceros sondaicus. It is not impossible that there may be one or two lingering along the Arakan Coast or elsewhere.
Rhinoceros sondaicus . In a letter received from the Forest Department, Shwebb, it stated that four specimens of the Javan rhinoceros probably occur in the Kahilu Game Sanctuary. This is located in the Thaton and Salween Districts, in Lower Burma.
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They have been destroyed by the Meos, a mountain people who have imigrated from China in recent times. The Meos hunters search for them for the horn, used as a medicine. The value of the horns was so great that they figured in the tribute sent by the king of Luang-Prabang every year to the Emperor of China and the Emperor of Annam. At the present time in the royal marriages of Luang-Prabang a rhino horn frequently figures in the dowry of the young princesses.
I am not sure about the elevation preferred by this animal. It is known and hunted on the Dar Lac Plateau at an elevation of about 3,000 feet, and last year some natives invited me to hunt a party of four rhinos near Cua Rao, about 100 feet above sea level.
At the present time in the royal marriages of Luang-Prabang a rhino horn frequently figures in the dowry of the young princesses.
1937, Indochina, The horn and feet of a rhinoceros are worth about $2000, which probably explains why so few specimens find their way to museums.
A specimen taken at Manipur in 1874 was brought to London by the dealer Jamrach, and was later sent to the Berlin Zoological Gardens. It had been determined as R. sondaicus both in Berlin and London. Jamrach was not satisfied with this, and insisted that it represented a hitherto undescribed species. He finally described it himself as R. jamrachii ! The remains have apparently been lost.
Info from Mr. William W. Fegan of the 'Bangkok Sport and Gossip' (1933). About the year 1886 a one-horn was captured and brought alive to Bangkok from a place near Krabin, to the west of the capital. It was kept in captivity here for some time ere it passed out.
The last example of the Javan rhinoceros that was kept alive in the Zoological Gardens in London, was purchased from Jamrach in 1874, the locality being given as Batavia. This was probably the only specimen really of that species they ever had in their collection.
