1907.] EARS OF AFBICAX ELEPHAXTS. 393 



the eav.s of E. africanus knochenliaueri are not available, the 

 Rhodesiau animal clearly comes very close to that race (of which 

 the type specimen came from German East Africa), and is accord- 

 ingly, at any rate for the present, considered to be inseparable 

 therefrom. 



Text-fis-. 114. 



Head of Male Elepliaut from the Aberdare Mountains, British East Africa {JSlepJias 

 ((fricanns peeli), from a complete specimen in the collection of Mr. C. V. A. 

 Peel at Oxford. 



Next on the list comes an Elephant in the private collection 

 of Mr. C. V. A. Peel, 12 Woodstock Road, Oxford, shot in the 

 Aberdare Mountains, British East Africa, which ai-e situated 

 immediately east of the Victoria Nyanza, at no great distance 

 from Movmt Kenya. The ears of this specimen (text-fig. 114), 

 which are mounted " cocked," are remarkable for their lengtli 

 anci narrowness and somewhat pyriform shape ; the vertical 

 diameter being 4 feet 3^ inches and the transverse 2 feet 5 inches. 



