1907.] 



EARS OF AFRICAN ELEPHANTS. 



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While indicating the large size of the ears characteristic of South 

 African Elephants generally, these dimensions ai-e suggestive of 

 the Addo Bush type. 



Reverting to text-fig. 106, it may be noticed that the arching 

 of the foi-ehead is less marked than in the Addo Bush Elephant. 

 Nearly similar features are displayed in the photograph of the 

 head of an immature South African Elephant in the Museum at 

 Saffron Walden, Essex, which was acquired somewhere about the 

 year 1850, but the ears, in cori'elation with its immaturity, are 

 relatively larger. The front view of the head of a male elephant 

 shot during (1 believe) the sixties by H.R.H. the late Duke of 

 Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in South Africa (text-fig. 107) seems un- 

 dovibtedly to belong to the present type, the ears being of the 

 same large semielliptical form, and not rising, when cocked, above 

 the line of the middle of the head. 



Text-fio-. 108. 



Head of Male Maslionalaiul Elephant {Eleplias africanus selonsi) in tlie 

 Imijerial Institute. 



Assvuning that I am justified in separating the West Cape 

 Elephant, which siirvives only in a few protected localities such 

 as Mossel Bay, from E. africanus capeyisis as typified by the Addo 

 Bush Elephant, the former will require a new name (unless 

 indeed it be E. africanus typicus). I accordingly suggest the 



