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Title: Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Ward, Rowland
Subjects: Game Game and game-birds Hunting trophies
Publisher: London (England) : Rowland Ward, limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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I2i 21 ? J. W. Grieve. 12 2l4 Cooch Behar . A. Ezra. - Owners measurements.^ Height at shoulder, 6 ft. 6 ins. The JAVAN RHINOCEROS (Rhinoceros sondaicus). A less gigantic and smaller-headed species than the last, with theskin marked by a kind of mosaic pattern, and the fold in front of theshoulder continued right across the body like the two hindmost folds.The neck also lacks the large ring-like masses of folded skin. Hornnever very large, and generally almost or completely wanting in thefemale. A female has been measured which stood 5^ feet at theshoulder, and it is probable that the male is not much inferior inheight to the Indian species, although of lighter build. Distributio7i.—The Sanderbans and other parts of Eastern Bengal, tothe Terai, Sikhim, Assam, and thence through Burma and theMalay Peninsula to Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. Length onfront curve. lOi log Circumference. 19I20 Locality. Java Do. Do. Owner.British Museum.H. Van Son.A. S. Campbell. 2 H 466 RECORDS OF BIG GAME
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Horn of Sumatran Rhinoceros. Shot by G. F. W. Curtis. The SUMATRAN RHINOCEROS (Rhinoceros (Ceratorhinus) ^ sumatrensis). The smallest of the Asiatic rhinoceroses, and the only one with twohorns ; differing, however, from the African members of the genus bythe presence of folds in the skin and of teeth in the front of the jaws.Only the fold behind the shoulders is continued across the back, andthe brown or black skin is rough, granular, and more or less hairy.Height at shoulder from about 4 feet to 4^^ feet ; weight about 2000 lbs. Distribution.—From Assam (where the species is very rare) to Siam,the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. The Assam animal isa distinct local race (7?. sumatrensis lasiotis). LengIoutside th oncurve. Circunifei -ence. 1 .oc.-ility. Owner. Front. Rear. Front. Rear. 32J i7§ ? British Museum. 274 171 ? Do. 15 7\ i7i 17 Malay 1 Ieninsuia . C. B. Smales. II 3i i5i i ? Sir T. S. Tancred, Bart. 61 34 I2; I2i Burma . The late C. W. A. Bruce, 1 An earlier name i

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