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6 feet 5| inches, and a transverse diameter of 4 feet 1| inches. 

 The height of the animal to which it belonged is estimated by the 

 owner (from the circumference of the fore-foot) to have been over 

 13 feet. Mr. Haig also possesses the ears of another Elephant 

 from the same district, which are rather smaller. As mounted, 

 neither of these ears shows any fold at the top ; although, as 

 already mentioned, in the " Queen's Elephant," as well as in 



Text-fio-. 117. 



Right Ear of a Male Sudan Elephant {JSlephas africanus o.vyotis), from the 

 Blue Nile, in the possession of Mr. A. Haig. 



the young Abyssinian Elephant now living in the Society's 

 Gardens, there is a small forward fold. The enormous length 

 of the ears of this race is indicated in the photograph of a herd 

 at the Giza Zoological Gardens sent me by Captain S. S. Flower, 

 where this feature is well displayed in one full-grown animal. 

 Despite the gigantic stature attained by E. a, oxyotis, the tusks 

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