138 BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Only one elephant from the Congo is in the National Museum 
collection, and this is insufficient as a basis of comparison with 
Lozodonta africana africana, the type locality of which has been fixed 
by Heller in the Congo Basin. 
The specimens listed above, from western Uganda and Lado, 
which may possibly represent two forms, are likewise insufficient for 
satisfactory comparison with Lozodonta africana peeli of British Kast 
Africa. They are here recorded under albertensis on geographical 
grounds alone, and the distinction of this race from earlier named 
forms is by no means clear. Roosevelt and Heller included all of the 
described forms of East African elephants, excepting oxyotis of the 
Blue Nile region, with the South African Loxodonta africana capensis. 
This is unquestionably wrong, as the South African elephant repre- 
sents a subspecies quite distinct from the East African races. How 
many of the Hast African subspecies will eventually stand is of course 
uncertain, but Lozxodonta africana knochenhaueri (Matschie),? 
described from Barikiwa, southern German East Africa, is probably 
a valid form, distinct from peeli of the Kenia region in British Hast 
Africa. 
The male from Kisingo, Uganda, was shot by Colonel Roosevelt, 
December 28, 1909. The field catalogue gives its height as 10 feet, 
9 inches. 
LOXODONTA AFRICANA PEELI (Lydekker). 
1907. Elephas africanus peeli LYDEKKER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 393. Au- 
gust. (Aberdare Mountains, British East Africa; type in collection of 
C. V. A. Peel, Oxford, England.) 
1910. Elephas africanus peeli Roosrvett, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 476; 
London ed., p. 487. (Part.) 
1914. Loxodonta africana capensis Roosevett AND Huuumr, Life-Hist. African 
Game Anim., vol. 2, p. 715. (Part; not of Cuvier.) 
Specimens.—Eleven, from localities as follows: 
British East Arrica: Meru, 10 to 15 miles east of Boma, 7, 
including one complete skin and skull, one skull with skeleton, two 
odd skulls, and three pairs of ears (T. Roosevelt, Heller, K. Roose- 
velt); Mount Kenia, west slope at 7,000 to 8,500 feet, 2, including one 
complete skin and skeleton and one odd tooth (T. Roosevelt, Mearns) ; 
Nyeri, 1, teeth only (Mearns); Southern Guaso Nyiro River, 1 skull 
only (Mearns). 
LOXODONTA AFRICANA CAVENDISHI (Lydekker). 
1907. Elephas africanus cavendishi LypEKKER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 395. 
August. (Lake Rudolf, British East Africa; type in British Museum.) 
1914. Loxodonta africana capensis RoosrvELT AND Heer, Life-Hist. African 
Game Anim., vol. 2, p. 715. (Part; not of Cuvier.) 
1 Roosevelt and Heller, Life-Hist. African Game Anim., vol. 2, pp. 715, 716. 1914. 
2 Blephas africanus knochenhaueri Matschie, Sitz.-ber. Ges. nat. Freunde Berlin, 1900, p. 197. 
