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seen a tuskless elephant of either sex, and I doubt if there are 

 any where I have hunted. 



Another feature which I have noticed, as characteristic of 

 the elephants of these equatorial regions (at all events, on the 

 eastern side of Africa), and in which they seem to differ some- 

 what from those of farther north (I do not know whether the 



The Big Tusk (8 ft. i\ in,, 155 lb- - 1 lk-.ted by the Officers serving 

 IN British East Africa to H.R.H. the Duke of York 



ON THE occasion OF HIS MARRIAGE. 

 (From a Photograph by Mr. J. R. W. Pk;ott.) 



same applies to the southern representatives or not), is the ear. I 

 have been much struck with this difference when conferring with 

 Mr. Caldwell (the artist who has drawn many of my elephant 

 pictures with such painstaking care) on the subject of illustrations 

 for this book ; and from my descriptions and measurements, in 



