unbeliever in 14 ft. elephants or anything like it. 
doubt even that) there may be a 12 ft. one in existence, but I have had 
some experience (and probably more opportunities of judging than 
most of those who pose as authorities), and I have never killed one 
that could be absolutely guaranteed to be over 11 ft. 3 ins. in height 
AFRICAN ELEPHANT 
(to be quite on the safe side, for as a fact I made it an inch more). 
have killed two of that height in my time, and not another within 
several inches of this.” 
4 FEET 
African Elephant Tusk in the American National Collection. 
Length Greatest 
(outside curve). circumference. 
ft. ins. ins. 
II 52 | 184 
II oO ih 18} 
Io 2 
Io 23 244 
9 10 | 194 
oOR5 J 19 
9° 5h 183 
9 0 J 18} 
9 5 225 
9° 4 204 
Weight. 
lbs. 
293 
160 
Tusks. 
Locality. 
East Africa 
Marsabit 
East Africa 
Do. 
Tana Valley 
? 
East Africa 
Owner. 
American National Collection. 
(See illustration. ) 
F. J. Watson Taylor. 
British Museum. 
Charles Pulley. 
Major H. De Prée. 
Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 
Sir John Kirk. 
Possibly (though I 
