An open waste in the bamboo jungles of Mount Kenia. The cows and calves spend 

 much of their time in such jungles, feeding on the succulent roots of young bamboo. 

 Many photographic studies were made by the expedition to help in the construction of 

 a natural habitat for the elephant group to be set up at the American Museum 



tacular sport of lion-spearing. About the middle of May we trekked across 

 country to Mount Kenia for the purpose of making studies for the setting 

 of the elephant group. 



The forests of the southern slopes of Mount Kenia are inhabited by 

 forest elephants, who seldom if ever leave them except to make short night 

 excursions into the gardens of the Wakikuyu natives. Wishing to learn 

 something definite in regard to the limits of their range on the mountain, 

 we made the ascent from the south through the timber and bamboo belts 

 on to the snow fields at the base of the pinnacle. We found that the ele- 

 phants regularly work up to timber line (12,000 feet) and we found com- 

 paratively fresh tracks in the sphagnum marshes at 14,500 or more feet. 



It was while on this excursion we found the "maternity bed" of an 

 elephant. Under the protection of a great mass of aerial roots and the 

 foliage of a great tree on the point of a densely forested ridge, accessible 



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