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ELEPHANTS 



height was 12 feet, but his actual standing height was pre- 

 cisely 10 feet 9 inches. He was carefully measured in 1883 at 

 Madison Square Garden, New York, by Mr. Robert Gilfort, 

 now living in Orange, New Jersey. 



INDIAN ELEPHANT. 



The large species of African elephants have been so long 

 and so relentlessly pursued by the murderous ivory-hunters, 

 both white and black, that now it is almost an impossible 

 task to find a full-grown bull, or to find one with a pair of 

 tusks even approaching six feet in length. Possibly the 

 species can be perpetuated by the young stock, but all ex- 

 perienced stock-breeders surely will regard it as very unlikely. 



