PACHYDERMATA. 



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book of Natural History omits to give amusing and 

 interesting anecdotes of its sagacity and penetration, 

 from the standard jest of the watered tailor of Delhi, 

 downward. From the very triteness of the subject, 

 we prefer to devote our very limited space to a few 

 particulars of the less known, but not less interest- 

 ing, African Elephant. 



AFRICAN ELEPHANT (Eleplias Africanus). 



This animal, but recently separated as a species 

 from its Indian relative, besides the number of the 

 hoofs, is distinguished by the following among other 

 differences. The forehead is convex, instead of being 



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