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SUPPLEMENT TO 

 THE GAME ANIMALS OF AFRICA 



In the following pages I have endeavoured to bring the volume as 

 nearly as possible up to date. Most of the matter in the " Addenda " 

 issued with the volume has been incorporated, and the loose sheet 

 relating to Foa's zebra has likewise been included. 



R. Lydekker. 



Harpenden, November 191 i. 



THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT 



(Page I) 



It is stated by Mr. F. A. Knowles in the Journal of the East 

 Africa and Uganda Natural History Society for 1911, vol. ii. No. 3, 

 p. 21, that an elephant, locally known as the forest -elephant, and 

 distinguished by its very long and slender tusks, is an occasional 

 visitor to Uganda from the Semliki and the district west of the Albert 

 Nyanza. This elephant is evidently ElepJias africamis albertensis 

 {supra, p. 8), described by myself on the evidence of a tuskless skull, 

 and may now be known as the Semliki race. A pair of tusks 

 from the Semliki received by Mr. Rowland Ward in 191 1 were of the 

 slender type described by Mr. Knowles. 



The Unyoro elephant, which has been provisionally associated by 

 myself with the Semliki race, is stated by Mr. Knowles to be perfectly 

 distinct, and therefore seems to require a new name. 



