MEASUREMENTS OF TUSKS 315 



The above elephant was shot in the Mysore jungles by Sir 

 Victor Brooke and Col. Douglas Hamilton, in 1863, and 

 up till April 1896 the 8-foot tusk was, I presume, the 

 record for the Asiatic elephant. Mr. Clough of the Burma 

 Police, a young sportsman, shot a very fine tusker on April 18, 

 1896, in the jungles near Chaungwa Kyaikto, subdivision of 

 the Thaton district of Lower Burma. All measurements and 

 weights of the two tusks were published under the signatures 

 of Messrs. R. C. Syms, of the Burma Commission, and H. P. 

 Pedler, District Superintendent of Police, Thaton, in an issue 

 of the Rangoon Times in May 1897. These tusks, the 

 following of which are the measurements, are believed to be, 

 for Asiatic elephants, a record pair. 



RIGHT TUSK LEFT TUSK 

 feet inches feet inches 



Length, outside curve . 7 9f 8 5j 



Length, inside curve . 6 9^ 7 6 

 Length from centre of base to tip 



(direct) .... . 5 8J 64! 



Greatest girth . . .15 i 4i 



Weight, right tusk, 2705 tolas, 69-156. 

 Weight, left tusk, 2780 tolas, 71-136. 

 Total weight of pair, 141*12 = 280 Ibs. 



Another very large pair, weighing over 100 Ibs., were found 

 last year in the jungle near Mogok, Ruby Mines district, 

 Upper Burma. 



One morning early one of my hunters woke me with the 

 welcome news that the tracks of a huge elephant, which must 

 have passed during the night, had been seen within 100 yards 

 of camp. I was then on two months' privilege leave, and had 

 been out in the jungles for over a month and a half. It was 

 then well on to the middle of the rainy season, and the 

 ground was very sodden, and vegetation and undergrowth 

 dense. 



After hurriedly dressing and partaking of some "chota hazri," 

 consisting of tea and toast and a little bacon, I mounted my 

 pony and took up the tracks, hoping that the animal might be 



