248 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTES ON THE VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF 
LEICESTERSHIRE. 
By Moyracu Browne, F. Z.S. 
Curator, Town Museum, Leicester. 
(Continued from p. 220). 
Order Uneutata.—Family ELEPHANTID. 
Amongst extinct species, remains of Elephants occur in the 
post-tertiary river gravels lying above, or at some distance from, 
the present river-beds of the county. At Belgrave, a suburb of 
Leicester, river gravels occur (probably post-glacial) in which are 
frequently found bones and teeth of Elephants, &c., usually 
resting on the under-lying Keuper marls. 
Elephas primigenius, Blumenbach. Mammoth.—A remarkably 
fine tusk of one of these extinct pre-glacial Elephants was found 
in October, 1865, in Sydney Street, Belgrave Road, Leicester, 
eleven feet from the surface, in the drift gravel, and resting upon 
the upper Keuper marls. It measured in situ nine feet on the 
curve, but being extremely friable, in spite of the utmost care, 
some portion of it was lost. The remaining portion, after being 
skilfully treated by Mr. J. E. Weatherhead, the then Curator, 
found a resting-place in the Town Museum, where it still remains. 
Its measurements are:—Length of curve, 6 ft. 2in.; circum- 
ference, 2 ft.; diameter, 8in. A portion of a smaller, but longer, 
tusk was found a year or so afterwards in the drift in Hutchinson’s 
gravel-pit, Sydney Street, Belgrave Road. The Belgrave river- 
gravels have also furnished numerous bones and teeth, many of 
which are shown in the Leicester Museum. The late Dr. Leith 
Adams, in his beautiful monograph on “Fossil Elephants” 
(Paleontographical Society, 1877-81), figures profile and crown 
views of a left upper last true molar, from Kirby Park, Melton 
Mowbray, marked No. 35 in the Woodwardian Museum, Cam- 
bridge. 
Elephas antiquus, Faleoner. Ancient Elephant.—Mr. W. J. 
Harrison, in his ‘Geology of Leicestershire,’ has recorded the 
finding of a complete skeleton of this species at a depth of six 
feet, resting on lias clay at Barrow-on-Soar. Unfortunately but 
two or three fragments could be preserved. Dr. Leith Adams 
also has noticed the occurrence of this species at Barrow-on-Soar. 
