CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 274, 1862 ; Blyth, 

 Cat. Mamm. Mus. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 134, 1863 ; Falconer, 

 Nat. Hist. Eev. vol. iii, p. 81, 1863 ; Jerdon, Mamm. India, 

 p. 229, 1867 ; Johnston, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1868, p. 127 ; 

 Stemdale, Mamm. India, p. 389, 1884 ; Flower and Garson, Cat. 

 Osteol. Mus. R. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 442, 1884 ; Lydekker, Cat. 

 Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus. pt. iv, p. 98, 1886; W. L. Sclater, 

 Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 206, 1891 ; Flower and LydeJtJter, 

 Study of Mammals, p. 424, 1891 ; Hose, Mamm. Borneo, p. 62, 

 1893; Beddard, Cambridge Nat. Hist., Mamm. p. 221, 1902; 

 Lull, Smithson. Eep. 1908, pp. 664 and 673, 1909. 

 Elephas asiaticus, Blumeribacli, HandbucJi NaturqescJiiclite, vol. ii, 

 p. 403, 1803. 



INDIAN ELEPHANT : HATHI. 



The name Elepkas maximus is typified by a Ceylon 

 elephant, and at first sight it would seem that Ceylon should 

 be taken as the typical locality of the species. But there 

 are two races of elephants in that island; one probably 

 indigenous in which the tusks of the males are insignificant, 

 and the other almost certainly introduced in which they 

 are large. Now it seems almost certain that the big-tusked 

 race formed the type of Linne's species ; and if so, Ceylon 

 will not be the typical locality. Unfortunately, it is uncertain 

 whether the tusker-race was imported from the Indian main- 

 land * or from Lower Burma.t Under these circumstances 

 the writer has considered it advisable to take southern India 

 (say Mysore) as the type locality, and to regard the small 

 tusked Ceylon form as a second race. 



The range includes India (to a considerable elevation in 

 the Himalaya), Assam, Cachar, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Cochin 

 China, the Malay Peninsula, northern Borneo (where the 

 species may have been introduced), and Sumatra. 



A. Elephas maximus maximus. 



Elephas indicus bengalensis, Blainville, Osteograpliie, Genus Eleplias, 

 pi. vii. 



Typical locality arbitrarily taken as Mysore (supra). 



* See LydekJi'cr, Game Animals of India, p. 15. 

 f See Still, Spolia Zeylanica, vol. iv, p. 178, 1907. 



