MAMMALIA. 



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attain a length sometimes of nine feet, a girth of twenty- 

 two inches, and a weight of two hundred pounds each, 

 with which they can toss a tiger thirty feet or more. There 

 are no incisors in the lower jaw ; the canines are absent, 

 and the molars are large, ridged transversely, and filled 

 with cement or crusta petrosa. The head is extremely mas- 

 sive, but not indicative of the size of the brain, the upper 

 portion containing numbers of air-cells. The limbs are 

 powerful and five-toed, the feet resting on broad pads. 

 The Asiatic species has small ears and an oblong head, 



FIG. 353. Asiatic elephant, showing how ured by man. 



while in the African the ears are immense, the head round, 

 and the forehead convex. They roam in herds. The 

 young in the Indian species weigh about two hundred and 

 thirteen pounds at birth, and are thirty-four and a half 

 inches in height. Individuals have been known to live 

 one hundred and thirty years. 



The mastodon and mammoth are extinct elephants of 

 this country, Europe, and Asia. The latter was hairy, and 



