THE AFEICAN ELEPHANT. 



Two specjes of Elephant have long been known 

 to inhabit the great continents of Asia and Africa. 

 They differ from each other in several particulars, 

 of which the size of the ear is most conspicuous. 

 (See engraving.) Though well known to the 

 ancients, the peculiarity of the large ear in the 

 African elephant, Fig. 1, does not seem to have 

 been much noticed of late years, for in some works 

 on natural history the ears of the African elephant 

 are represented scarcely one-third of their natural 

 dimensions. The tusks, moreover, are, as hunters 

 know, much larger in proportion than those of the 

 Indian congener, Fig. 2, and are found in both 

 sexes. 



In the African elephant, the tusks sometimes 

 reach a great size, as for instance a specimen which 

 weighed 140 pounds, measured eight feet in height, 

 and twenty- one inches in circumference. The 

 comparisons between the two species of elephant 



