the bi by. The mother may li 

 pool, i r perhaps to eal of the 

 treachery of the sticky 

 herst If and her baby. 



ive \ ''in ured i o drink 

 scanty vegetation neai 

 ubsoil proved to be a fatal 



a1 the tarry 



it: I lut the 

 trap, both for 



Right lower jaw of young mastodon, showing cutting of 

 first permanent tooth. 



lire, hence 

 This fact 



tusks are 



The tusks of the elephant grow continually throughout 

 do doI become very hard and resistant, but soon decay, 

 accounts for the poor condition in which most of the 

 found. 



While the exact origin of the greath North American true ele- 

 phant is quite perplexing, yet one thing seems evident, that they 

 came from the Orient by way of Behring bridge. Tine,, species 

 occui ier< — E. imperator and E. columbi and E. primogenus. The 

 firsl two of these roamed over the country together, from east to 



west, f] torth to south as far as Mexico. Only a single specimen 



tooth E. imperator having been reported from the lower Pleistocene 



'rench Guiana. The evolutionary process of the Probiscidia began 

 in Fayum, Egypt, with a form about three feet tall with only 

 slighl protrusion of the upper lip for a proboscis and no upper tusks, 

 but with the lower incisors extending forward. It is from the un- 

 developed and generalized form that the mastodons and elephants 

 ipe, Asia and America came. Tims began in Egypt one of the 

 emarkable face histories known to mankind and continued t< 

 .-..lit and might persist as long as time shall last, but for the 

 ravages of man. 



From the foregoing it must be clear that, without exception, all 

 the animals buried in the asphalt beds on Baneho La Brea were 

 wanderers thither. Some from other parts of North America as their 

 native home, while others had compassed the earth to arrive here. 

 What a scattering of life in its instinct to roam: What an effort 



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