RANGE OF THE COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH 



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ton in the American Museum of Natural History stands 11 

 feet in height, and its remarkable incurving tusks have an 

 extreme length on the curve of 11 feet 5^ inches. It is from 

 the Pleistocene of Indiana. As it stands it requires a reading 



AFRICAN ELEPHANT "JUMBO." 



Actual height at shoulders, 10 feet 9 inches (1883). 



of the label to assure the visitor that it is not an ancient skele- 

 ton of a modern Jumbo. 



The geographic range of the Columbian Mammoth af- 

 fords a curious exception to the rule of elephant distribution 

 in North America. It is almost coincident with that of the 

 American and Alaskan moose! From New Brunswick and 

 Maine it sweeps across the continent, covering the northern 

 United States and much of southern Canada to Vancouver. 

 Thence it extends northwestwardly throughout the Rocky 



