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MR. R. LYDEKKER ON THE 



[Apr. 23, 



}iame E. africanus ioxotis, taking the sjjecimeu shown in text- 

 fig. 106 as the type. 



I now pass to the head of a male Elephant in the Imperial 

 Institute, shot by Mr. James Sligo Jameson . This Elephant (text- 

 fig. 108), as I learn from a footnote on page 433 of Mr. Seloiis' 

 ' A Hunter's Wanderings in >South Africa,' was shot by Mr. Jame- 

 son in Matabililand (South Ilhodesi;"i). 



Text-fie-. 109. 





llig-ht Ear of Male Mashonalaiid Elephant (ISlephas africanus selovsi), 

 from a specimen belonging to Mr. Selous. 



Mr. Selous has kindly lent me the riglit ear of another Elephant 

 (text-fig. 109) shot in Mashonaland (Rhodesia), which apparently 

 belonged to the same race as Mr. Jameson's Elephant. This ear 

 has now a vertical diameter of 4 feet 8 inches, but when fresh it 

 is stated to have measured 5 feet 6 inches. None of the U2:)per 

 mai'gin is now reflected, but in life about four inches apjaears to 

 have been turned back, as in E. a. knochenhaueri. The height of 

 the elephant to which it belonged was about 10 feet. The e^xr is 



