382 MR. R. LYDEKKER ON TFIE [-^Pl"- 2->, 



notice that this appears to be subject to a certain amount of 

 variation according to age ; the proportionate size (as I infer from 

 the specimen now in the Society's Menagerie) being greater in 

 young animals than in those of riper age. It is thus evident that 

 for the pui^pose of defining local phases of the species, comparison 

 should be restricted, so far as the matter of size is concerned, to 

 subadult or adult animals. 



The following are the actual specimens that have come undei- 

 mj notice : — 1st, the young Abyssinian Elephant now living 

 in the Society's Menagerie ; 2nd, a mounted head from the 

 Lake Rudolf district, in the British Museum ; 3rd, an entire 

 mounted specimen from Fort Manning, JST.E. Rhodesia (South 

 Nyasaland), in the British Museum ; 4th and 5th, two mounted 

 heads in the Imperial Institute, one from Mashonaland, and the 

 other reported to be from Swaziland ; 6th, the right ear of an 

 Elephant shot in Congo Territory by Major Powell-Cotton, which 

 forms the fons et origo of the present communication. Mr. F. C. 

 Selous has lent me the ears of an Elephant shot by himself in 

 Mashonaland, one of which is now exhibited ; and I am also 

 enabled to show, through the courtesy of the owner, the right 

 ear of a huge Elephant killed by Mr. A. Haig on the Blue Nile, 

 and the head of a male Somali Elephant belonging to S.A.R. 

 le Due d'Orleans. The head of an East African Elephant with 

 very long tusks in Mr. Rothschild's museum at Tring came under 

 my notice after the paper was read. 



Of all these specimens, except the first and last, photographs 

 are hei'ewith exhibited, and I may take this oppoi'tunity of 

 thanking the Dir-ector of the Impei-ial Institute foi- permission 

 to photograph the two heads under his charge. 



In addition to the above, I have been provided with the follow- 

 ing photographs : — 1st, a South Somali Elephant in the act of 

 charging, photographed by Mr. R. McD. Hawker ; 2nd, " Jiunbo " 

 and the " Queen's Elephant," both formerly living in the 

 Society's Menagerie ; 3rd, an Elephant from the Aberdare Moun- 

 tains, in the private museum of Mr. C. Y. A. Peel at Oxford ; 

 4th, the photograph of the head of an Elephant from the Oalla 

 Country, belonging to Sir E. G. Loder ; 5th, the head of an 

 Elephant shot by the Duke of Westminster in North-west 

 Rhodesia, now mounted at Eaton Hall ; 6th, the head of an 

 Elephant shot by H.R.H. the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 

 Cape Colony, now at White Lodge, Richmond ; 7th, the head of 

 a female South African Elephant in the Museum at Cape Town ; 

 8th, the head of a female of the same race in the Museum at 

 Saffron Walden ; 9th, two Elephants from the Addo Bush, near 

 Grahamstown. For No. 3 I am indebted to Mr. Peel, for No. 4 

 to the Duke of Westminster, for No. 5 to Rowland Ward Ltd., 

 for No. 6 to the Director of the South African Museum, for No. 7 to 

 the Curator of the Saffron Walden Museum, and for No. 8 ta the 

 Director of the Grahamstown Musevim ; and to all these donors 

 my best thanks are due. 



