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character between the pelvis of the Indian and African Elephants has been already fully 

 referred to (p. 242). Above the acetabulum is a large portion of the ilium with its anterior 

 curved margin, extending to a height of more than three inches above the upper border of 

 the acetabulum. The general character of the bone is that of a fully mature animal ; 

 and. from its brown colour, condition, and comparatively large size, it corresponds very 

 exactly with the larger and older portions of the humerus and ulna already described 

 and referred to an individual of larger size and more mature age than that to which the 

 shaft of the humerus and the more perfect portion of the ulna probably belonged. 



The dimensions of the bone, so far as they are afforded in the specimen, are as 

 under : — Width of acetabulum (inside) 2"T, length 2"3 ; radius of concavity 

 about l"'l. The cotyloid notch is about 0"-5 in width ; and the channel continued from 

 it on the anterior surface of the body of the ischium ceases immediately beyond the 

 cotyloid border. The width of the contracted part of the ilium, above the acetabulum 

 is 1"'8. The body of the ischium is unfortunately broken off obliquely on the outer 

 side ; but about 1"'25 of the obturator border remains. This border is acute, and presents 

 about 0''"5 below the summit of the obturator foramen a slight elevation representing 

 what I have termed in a previous part of this paper the ischial obturator spine, which is 

 so strongly developed usually in the Indian Elephant, as well as in the Mammoth. The 

 length remaining of the pubic border of the foramen is too short to exhibit any trace 

 of the corresponding pubic obturator projection ; but sufficient is left of the ischial 

 border to show the important difference in form between that part and the corresponding 

 part in I^. melitensis, which in that respect, as before pointed out, more resembles the 

 African than the Indian species. Another particular in which the present specimen 

 approaches the Indian and differs from the African type is in the comparatively great 

 width of the cotyloid notch, which, as is well known, is much narrower in the African 

 acetabulum. The internal or pelvic surface of the ilium is smooth and equably concave, 

 and the outer is also smooth and evenly convex. Posteriorly the triangular surface of 

 bone forming the back of the acetabulum is much less concave from side to side than 

 in either the Indian or African species ; and the two borders consequently are indistinct 

 and rounded. And, corresponding with this general flatness of the surface in this part, 

 the excavation continued upwards from the obturator foramen is extremely shallow. 



11, 12. Fenmr. 



The collection contains at least three well-recognizable portions of the femur of E. 

 falconeri, belonging to individuals of widely differing ages. Two of these specimens are 

 shown in PI. L. figs. 29, 29 ci, & 30. The latter of these is the upper portion of the shaft 

 of a left femur, to all appearance of at least tolerably mature age ; and it corresponds in 

 all respects as regards colour and condition with the shaft of the humerus (fig. 26). The 

 fragment measures 3"'4 in length ; and it is broken irregularly across at the upper end, 

 just above the inferior termination of the posttrochanteric fossa. At the lower end it 



