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Fin. 2. Head of the West African or South Cameroons 

 Elephant, from Heck, Lebende Bilde aus Jem Reiche 

 tier Ticre. 



in the form of a half-ellipse. The skin presents a mosaic-like appear- 

 ance, and its colour is 



of a paler grey than 



in most other races. 



This race was named 



on the evidence of a 



young specimen in 



the Berlin Zoological 



Gardens, the head of 



which is here shown 



(fig. 2). The Congo 



elephant (E. a. cottoni] 



apparently comes very 



close to this type, but 



has the ear less regu- 

 larly oval. Its tusks 



are very long and 



slender. 



The Masai race 



(E. a, knodienliaueri\ 



typically from German East Africa, is a very large elephant, with 



small, regularly triangular 

 ears, with the lappet angu- 

 lated and pointed. A 

 mounted specimen in the 

 British Museum (fig. 3) from 

 near Fort Manning, north- 

 east Rhodesia, standing I i 

 feet 4 inches in height, with 

 ears measuring 4 feet 2^ 

 inches by 3 feet 5 inches, 

 cither belongs to this race 

 or indicates a closely allied 

 type. Although a male in 

 the prime of life, that is 

 to say, with the last molar 

 tooth just come into use, it 

 has relatively very small 

 tusks. 

 In the Aberdarc elephant (E. a. peclf], typically from the Abcrclare 



Mountains, British East Africa, the ears are pear-shaped, with the 



FIG. 3. Head of the North Rhodesian Flephant 

 in the British Museum. 



