ON XHi: EARS OF AN ELEPHANT. 



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backwards (text-fig. 214). On sawing across the middle of the 

 nasal region the antetior part of the median pair of bones came 

 away with the premaxillae and vomers, leaving the external bones 

 m sitii. These show bevelled inner edges where they were 

 slightly overlapped by the median bones, so that the surface- 

 marking is that of a suture in the middle of what is usually a 

 single nasal bone." 



The Ears of an Elephant from British East Africa. 



The Secretary exhibited the ears of an Elephant shot by 

 Mr. Sutton Timmis, F.Z.S., on the Guaso Ngishu Plateau, east 

 of Mt. Elgon, British East Africa. The ears of this elephant 

 (text-fig. 215) were elongated vertically, with an arched upper 



Text-fis. 215. 



Right ear of an Elephant (ElepJias africanus peeli) from the Guaso Ngishu Plateau , 

 British East Africa, from a specimen shot bj', and in the possession of, Mr. Sutton 

 Timmis, P.Z.S. 



border, and a long, relatively narrow, and pointed lappet. The 

 general shape corresponded closely with that of the ears of the 

 elephant from the Aberdaie Mountains, British East Africa, 

 figured by R. Lydekker (P.Z.S. 1907, p. 393, text-fig. 114). 

 The vertical length (4 feet 9 inches) and the gi^eatest breadth 



