MALAY RACE OF THE INDIAN ELEPHANT. 287 
Society’s Gardens in 1902, the mounted skin of which (text-fig. 2) 
is exhibited in the Natural History Museum, has a considerable 
portion of the body clothed with a somewhat sparse coat of rather 
short, soft, rufous hair, which also forms a fringe to the margins 
of the ears. ‘There likewise appears to be a certain amount of 
hair of a similar type shown in the photograph of the young 
Indian Elephant born in Copenhagen in 1912. 
On the other hand, from the fact that writers like G. P. 
Sanderson and W. T. Blanford make no mention of the hairi- 
ness of Indian Elephant calves, it seems probable that in many 
cases the skin may be more or less nearly bare, although it must 
be confessed that information with regard to this matter appears 
to be very scant and defective. Still, it may be taken for granted 
that if Indian-born Elephant calves exhibited hairiness in any 
way comparable to that of the young Negri Sembilan animal, the 
fact would have been recorded in textbooks on Indian natural 
history and sport. 
Text-figure 3. 
Outline of a Foetus of a Siamese Elephant. 
(From Toldt, Denks. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1913.) 
It is, however, very noteworthy that Mr. K. Toldt* has 
recently described and figured an advanced fceetus of a Siamese 
Elephant (text-fig. 3), in which the sides of the crown of the head, 
the terminal half of the trunk, the point of the lower lip, the 
under-parts, the greater portion of the limbs, and the hind aspect 
of the buttocks are sparsely covered with short bristly hairs, which 
would doubtless have attained much greater development after 
birth. Nor is this all, for if Mr. Toldt’s figure (text-fig. 3) be 
compared with that of the young Indian t Elephant shown in 
* Denks. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. xc. p. 259, 1913. 
+ The term ‘* Indian” is here used strictu sensw. 
