On a 1 hi arf Form of the African Elephant. 501 



liiu' I."{; z\ fjiimalii- lnoailtli 1 1 -'2 ; breadth between ])reorbital 

 |»H)Ci's.<cs 7'4 ; iiifcroibital coiii'tiictioM H*S ; greatest ina.stoid 

 bieadth 10"2; bei<,dit from basion to lop of Ijraiii-case 4 ; 

 )<alatal lcn»;tb in middle line h'S) ; front of canine to back ot" 

 »;«' () ; front of lower canine to back of h?3 6'6. 



Ihib. K.E. Africa, between Adis Abalja and Lake Rudolf, 



Tiipe. Adult male. Presented by W. N. McMillan, E>q. 

 Collected by l*li. C. Zaphiro. Seven specimens examined. 



Tlie peculiar flatteninc( of the head of this bat — even to the 

 abolition of the sauittal crest and the reduction in the vertical 

 thickness of the lower jaw — probably indicites that it either 

 lives in small cracks in trees or rocks, into which it may creep 

 beyond reach of enemies, or else that it frequents some large- 

 leaved plant (such as banana or cactus), between whose 

 leaves the other bat with a similarly shagreened forearm 

 {\'esp(rtilio Fi'oiccri) was found by Mr. N. C Rothschild. 



I have named this most interesting bat in honnir of 

 ]\lr. \V. N. M'Millan, to whose liberality science is indebted 

 tcr the exploration of which it is jjait of the outcome. 



LXVI. — -1 J hear/ Form of the African Elephant. 

 13y Prof. Th. Noack, of Brunswick*. 



In the summer of 1905 Herr C. Hagenbeck, of Stellingcn, 

 received a small elephant from the French Congo which 

 differs not merely from the varieties of Elephas africanus 

 de?cribed by Prof, ^latschie, but from all living elephants in 

 that it represents a dwarf form. 



J propose I'or it the name Elephas ofricanus pximilio. 



The animal was 120 cm. high at the shoulder (in the 

 lumbar region naturally higher), and was consequently about 

 as large as the two young African elephants figured by lleck 

 in 'Lcbcnde Tiere/ pp. 116 and 117, which are the types of 

 ^Matschie's EUj'has ci/clotis and E. od'ijotis. The height of 

 the young elepliant from the Cameioons in particular is stated 

 by Dr. lleck to be also 120 cm. 



Jn my opinion these elephants were about a year and a 

 lialf old. bince they were both, as also FJlephas pumilio, of 

 ■which, thiough the kindness of licrr Hagenbeck, I possess 

 two beauiitul photograjths, photographed together with a 

 keeper, it is possible to form a very good estimate of their 



• Translated by E. E. Austen from the ' Zoolojibcbcr Anzoi;,'or,' 

 Ed. xxix. No. 1*0 (Jan. H, llXMi), i)i). 0:Jl-G;j;i. 



