542 MR. A. H. GARROD ON THE INDIAN ELEPHANT. [Noyv. 2, 
stinct from C. dryas, a question open to doubt) to eleven, all of which 
are found either in the north-western districts of S. America or in 
Central America. 
AUTOMOLUS HOLOSTICTUS, sp. nov. 
Supra niger, usque ad medium dorsum flammulis longis pallide cer- 
vinis ornatus: alis et dorso inferiore brunneis, scapularium scapis 
cervinis: uropygio et cauda tota rubiginoso-rufis : subtus cervi- 
nus, in ventre magis brunnescens ; plumarum marginibus fuscis, 
et harum scapis clare cervinis: rostro saturate corneo, pedibus 
fuscis: long. tota 8°5, ale 3°3, caude@ rectr. med. 3°7, ext, 24, 
tarsi 1°1. 
Had. in Statu Antioquiensi reipubl. Columbiane. 
Mus. P.L. S. 
This fine large species at first sight resembles in plumage Thripa- 
dectes flammulatus, but has not the peculiarly formed bill of that 
species, and belongs to the true dutomoli, being nearest perhaps to 
the newly described A. striaticeps (P. Z 8. 1875, p. 37). s 
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6. Report on the Indian Elephant which died in the Gardens 
on July 7th, 1875. By A. H. Garrop, M.A., Prosector 
to the Society. 
[Received July 15, 1875.] 
On May Ist, 1851, the Society purchased of Mr. Batty (then of 
the Cireus, Westminster Bridge), for £800, an adult female E/ephas 
indicus with its female calf. The specimens had been deposited in 
the Society’s Gardens on the 19th of the preceding month. In the 
spring of the year 1850, John Stimpson, now keeper in the Society’s 
service, left the E.I. Company’s military service, and when at 
Cawnpoor, on his way to Calcutta, met an animal-dealer, Mr. Wallace, 
who was on his way to Calcutta with the female and calf in question 
as well as another Elephant. Stimpson is sure that the calf was born 
after the female had been captured, and thinks that it was three 
months old when he first saw it. He assisted in taking charge of 
the animals till they arrived in this country: they were five months 
on the voyage. 
Of the two specimens purchased by the Society the mother was sold 
on April 28th, 1854, to the Zoological Society of Brussels, the calf 
contiuuing to suckle until that date, ¢. e. until upwards of four years 
of age. 
It is this calf of 1851 which died on July 7th, 1875 (25 years old). 
The Superintendent, the head keeper, and the Elephant-keepers are 
of opinion that it continued to grow until within a year of its death. 
Its height at the withers at the time of its death was just eight feet. 
For the last four years at least the animal has lost the power of ex- 
tending its trunk, from paralysis of the anterior intrinsic muscles of 
of that organ. It has thus not been able to throw its trunk over its 
