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from E. africanus cajjensis is, I think, certain, the ears being- 

 relatively larger, and not having the slightest tendency to a squared 

 form. This is well exemplified by the photogi-aph of the head of 

 an entire female specimen in the South African Museum at Cape- 

 town (text-fig. 106), which maybe taken as the type of this race. 

 The ears are very long, somewhat in the form of a half-oval or 

 perhaps of half a pear, with the lappet moderately large, not 

 markedly pointed, but strongly inflected towards the neck. Appa- 

 rently the ears do not quite meet, when in repose, in the middle 

 line of the neck, and they are much larger in proportion to their 

 width than in the Addo Bush Elephant, in which, as already 

 mentioned, they approach a square. So far as I can learn, the 

 skin is not hairy. 



Text-fia-. 107. 



Heiulof Mule West Cape Elephant {JUle^/ias africanus toxotis), fvom a specimen shot 

 by H.R.H. the late Duke of Saxe-Cobvirg-Gotha in South Africa, and now at 

 Wliite Lodge, Kichmond. 



Unfortunately, I have not the dimensions of the eai-s of either 

 the Cape Town or the Grahamstown specimen. Livingstone in 

 his ' Missionaiy Travels ' * has, however, recorded that in a female 

 elephant standing 8 feet 8 inches in height, the ears measured 

 4 feet 5 inches in vei-tical depth by 4 feet in hoi-izontal diameter. 



* Small edition, page 370. 



