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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
employed that, despite the vast numbers of these great mammals 
which forty or fifty years ago thronged the interior from the Orange 
River northwards, but few herds are now left south of the Zambesi. 
The species has been divided into a number of local races, mainly 
distinguished by the form and size of the ears and tusks. 
Height at ‘Total 
shoulder length 
in straight (trunk to  fore-foot. 
Girth of 
line. end of tail). 
ft. 
II 
LTT 
ins. ft. ins. ft. ins. 
8} 
Gh M55. bo Se 
6 ex 4 10 
**Tumbo ” 
7 
6 Pip 4 8 
6 
3 
FEU Tis 4 6% 
(dried) 
1 Length of humerus 3 ft. 8 ins. 
OWNER’S MEASUREMENTS. 
Locality. 
Abyssinia . 
Near Wadelai 
Do. 
Kavirondo Hills 
Sudan 
East Africa 
Do. 
Blue Nile . 
Mozambique 
Toro, E.C.A. 
Fast Africa 
Do. 
Uganda 
Sudan 
Sierra Leone 
N.W. Rhodesia 
White Nile 
Lake Rudolf 
Uganda 
Tana Valley 
Tana Valley 
S.E. Africa 
Nyasaland 
Somaliland 
Owner. 
H. Weld-Blundell. 
Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton. 
E. S. Grogan and Major G. A. S. 
Cape. 
E. B. Bronson. 
Earl of Sefton. 
The late A. H. Neumann, 
He By Late: 
Capt. J. A. Pollock. 
Col. J. J. Harrison. 
E. S. Grogan. 
Abel Chapman. 
(Gon archer. 
G. M. Norrie. 
G. C. Whitaker. 
Capt. W. P. Pearse. 
Dr. A. H. B. Kirkwood. 
Major R. M. Sanders. 
The iate A. H. Neumann. 
M. Mitchell. 
Major H. De Prée. 
Barnum and Bailey. 
Capt. C. Hankey. 
F. C. Selous. 
Sir John Kirk, 
Viscount Edmond de Poncins. 
2 Length from root of tail to eye, in straight line. 
With reference to the height of elephants, the late Mr. A. H. Neumann, 
in Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, stated that “I am an 
