INDIAN ELEPHANT 



bristles on the tail are confined to the front and back edges for some 

 distance above the tip. Other noticeable points are the comparative 

 flatness of the forehead, and the regular convex form of the back, 

 as well as the perfect flexibility of the trunk, which may be compared 

 in structure to an india-rubber tube. Although males do not generally 

 exceed 9, and females 8 feet in height, specimens have been killed 

 measuring 9 feet 10 inches, 10 feet i inch, and 10 feet 7^- inches, 

 while one is stated to have reached 1 1 feet, and there is evidence of 

 still larger individuals, perhaps of I 2 feet. 



Distribution. The forest districts of India, Ceylon, Assam, Burma, 

 Malay Peninsula, Siam, Cochin China, Sumatra, and Borneo. The 

 Sumatran elephant may possibly form a peculiar local race. 



Height. 



Owner. 



Viscount Powerscourt. 

 H. Shaw Dunn. 

 Col. J. E. Campbell. 

 James J. Harrison. 

 Major-General A. A. A. Kinloch. 

 F. Gompertz. 

 The late G. P. Sanderson. 



Owner. 



The late Lord Lytton. 

 Government House, Rangoon. 



Do. 



The late Lord Lytton. 

 Sir Victor Brooke's Collection. 

 Marquis of Waterford. 

 Do. 



R. Gordon Smith. 



Bethnal Green Museum (J. D. 

 Goldingham). 



1 The tusks of the sacred white elephant from King Thebaw's Palace, Mandalay. 



