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Although the head and great trochanter are wanting, it is apparent that the contour 
of these parts, as in the above, resembles the Asiatic Elephant rather than the African, 
as seen by the relative breadth of the head and the shallower digital pit. Again, like 
the African, it is flat on the posterior aspect; and the rudimentary trochanter minor a, 
as in the old bone, forms a rough prominence on the posterior and internal border. 
Further, looking at the epiphysial surface and its outline as compared with those of EZ. 
falconert of Busk', it seems to me that the pronounced hollow caused by the pre- 
trochanteric fossa in them has no such character in fig. 18, which, in the outline of its 
head at the same point, resembles the adult bone Pl. XIV. fig. 1, and the feetal 
African femur in the British Museum, figured by Busk’. As to the outline of the 
same part in HL. melitensis (Busk)*, the bone in question is still more dissimilar, except 
that both have their anterior surface rounded. Therefore, whatever form Pl. XIV. 
fig. 1 belongs to, the same type, I apprehend, is Pl. XXI. fig. 18. 
2. The next specimen represents about three and a half inches of the distal end of a 
left femur belonging to a larger individual than the last. It has the rounded shaft and 
general characters of a young bone. Instead of having the flat surface anteriorly close to 
the epiphysisat 4,as shown in Pl. XIV. fig. 3, it is rounded as at 6 in fig. 2 of the same 
Plate; whilst the lower epiphysial surface shows a longer outline for the internal con- 
dyles, as obtains in the adult and in the African. I therefore cannot disassociate this 
fragment from that of Pl. XIV. figs. 1 & 2 and the last, or, in other words, from the 
large form. 
TX. Tisia. 
The materials for determination under this head are confined entirely to the large 
form. 
1. The almost perfect left tibia (Pl. XV. fig. 1) most probably belongs, as just stated, 
to the femur Pl. XIV. fig. 1, inasmuch as both lay close together, and when approxi- 
mated to the condyles of the right side (Pl. XIV. figs. 2 & 2a) they fit exactly, so as 
to lead to a belief that a skeleton was deposited in the flesh. The specimen (PI. XV. 
fig. 1) is entire as regards length, but was injured during removal, yet not to the extent 
to prevent the preserving of the following data:—Breadth of upper condyles is 5-3 inches, 
breadth of external depression 2:5 by 2-4, breadth of internal depression 3-1 by 2°5, girth 
at middle of shaft 7. The astragaloid aspect is 3:2 by 2°6. The latter is somewhat injured 
and imperfect; but fortunately the distal extremity of the right tibia (figs. 2 & 2a) 
supplies the defect. 
2. The latter represents a profile and lower view, to which was attached in the same way 
as in fig 1 an astragalus of precisely the same dimensions; indeed, in all probability, 
all belonged to the same individual. 
3. Fig. 3 represents the proximal articulation of a right tibia somewhat smaller than 
1 Trans. Zool. Soc. vi. p. 267. * Ibid. p. 277. no. 38a. * Thid. p. 267. 
