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Peninsula, and is believed to have been about three years old at 
the time of its death. As shown in the accompanying photograph 
from life (text-fig. 1), it has a somewhat stunted appearance— 
suggestive, at first sight, of its belonging to a small race,—the 
height of the specimen, as mounted, being about 3 feet 8 inches. 
This stunted appearance may, however, be merely due to the 
effects of early captivity, for Mr. T. R. Hubback, in his book 
on Elephant and Seladang Hunting in the Federated Malay 
States *, records that the Elephants of the Negri Sembilan are of 
ordinary size, although of late years most of the big bulls have 
been killed off. He also mentions that practically all the bulls 
are tuskers, and very generally have one tusk much smaller than 
the other. 
Before proceeding further, it may be mentioned that it is very 
difficult to obtain definite information with regard to the hairiness 
ov otherwise of Indian Elephant calves—that is to say, in those of 
the typical Indian race of the species. Dr. Mobius f has, indeed, 
Text-figure 2. 
Newly born indian Klephant im the Natural History Museum. 
shown that young Elephants may have remnants of a soft hairy 
eoat comparable to the under-fur of the Mammoth, and the 
young Elephant born—from a presumably Indian mother— in the 
* London, 1905, p. 63. 
+ Sitzber. k.-preuss. Ak. Wiss., Math.-Nat. 1892, p. 527 
