384 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



In 1931 total protection was recommended by the Siam Society. 



"Of its occurrence in the Siamese part of the Malay Peninsula we 

 have practically no evidence" (Kloss, 1927, p. 207). 



Loch (1937, pp. 133-134) quotes William W. Fegan (1933) as 

 follows: 



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 .... 



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, survey ors, 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. 



In more recent times I have heard of two of the animals having been 

 seen in Eastern [= western] 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 .... 

 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. 



Loch adds that a few years ago A. S. Vernay could get no informa- 

 tion as to the animal's presence in central and northwestern Siam. 



French Indo-China. Information on the status of the two species 

 of rhinoceros occurring in this country (Rhinoceros sondaicus and 

 Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is so imperfect that in some cases it is 

 virtually impossible to segregate the records of one species from 

 those of the other. The following notes probably refer in part to 

 both species. 



Rhinoceroses have certainly become very rare in Indo-China, if 

 indeed a single one is left. In South Annam Defosse succeeded, 

 about 1903 or 1904, in killing five. About 1896 M. Oderra killed 25 

 Rhinos; M. de Monestrol certifies to this. (De la Chevasnerie, 

 1936?, p. 340.) 



In Cambodia the disappearance of rhinos is almost complete at 

 present. They were formerly recorded as very rare in the Massifs 

 de PElephant and des Cardamomes, and on the banks of the Mekong. 

 A specimen was killed about 1930 in the Province of Kompong- 

 Cham. Some may still exist, but in very sparse numbers, in the 

 region of Sre-Umbell (Kampot) and in the Province of Stung- 

 Treng. The number must be very small (probably less than a 

 dozen) . It is impossible to determine the exact species. Various 

 authors have recorded sondaicus, sumatrensis, and unicornis from 

 Indo-China. It is quite possible that one or two of these species have 



