1907.] 



EARS OF AFRICAN ELEPHANTS. 



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E. africanus capensis, and may accordingly be referred to that 

 I'ace. The inner front edge of the lappet is turned in towards 

 the neck. The high arching of the profile of the forehead 

 I'eferred to by Dr. Matschie is strongly pronounced in the photo- 

 graph, as it is in the photograph of a second and younger specimen 

 in the Graliamstown Museum, which agrees precisely in the form 

 of the ears with the first example. I may add that the Director 

 of the Grahamstown Museum, to whom I am indebted for these 

 photographs, has been long convinced of the racial distinctness 

 of the Addo Bush Elephant, and has given me the following 

 additional particulars of the animal. The ears, compared to those 

 of the next race, ai'e small, and the fore-legs pi'oportioua,tely low ; 

 wlnle the venti'al line of the body is almost hoiizontal. More 

 important is the presence of a dense coat of haii- on many parts of 

 the body ; this being very noticeable in the specimen of wlncli the 

 skeleton is now mounted in the Oxford Museum. 



Text-fio-. 106. 



Head of Foinalt' Wost Cape Ele])lirnit (ElejiJtux ^ifricauns /i>.vo/is), from n sjn'cimeu 

 in the Sontli African Museum, Capetown. 



If we call tlie preceding form tlie Addo Bush, or East Cape 

 Elephant, the race to which attention is now directed may be 

 termed the West Cape Elephant. That it is perfectly distinct 



