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however, is about twice as large as the Malta fossil, but in the former 

 the vertebral foramen is much larger in proportion.' (See PI. XIII. 

 figs. 1 to 4.) 



[Among Dr. Falconer's drawings there is a representation of another 

 vertebra of Elephas Melitensis, which was identified as the seventh 

 cervical, and which has been already referred to. See antea, p. 251, 

 note. — Ed.] 



3. Pelvis of Elephas Melitensis. 



'Among the fossil remains from Zebbug there is also the right side of 

 a pelvis which agrees in the closest manner possible, so far as the 

 acetabulum goes, with that of the Indian Elephant in the College of 

 Surgeons Museum.' (See PL XIII. figs 5 and 6.) 



4. Humerus of Elephas Melitensis. 



' College of Surgeons, July 21, 1860. — The humerus from Zebbug 

 is the left, and agrees most closely with that of Elephas Indicus, No. 

 2654, which has not the epiphyses synostosed. All the leading points 

 of general form are exactly the same. It also agrees most closely with 

 the detached humerus, No. 2741 B., the chief difference being the two 

 lengthened depressions near the outer angle at the top, which are much 

 more pronounced in the fossil. Unluckily the head is gone in the fossil, 

 or the evidence would be complete. Although belonging to a nearly 

 adult individual, its entire length is not more than ten inches.' (See 

 Plate XIV. figs. 1 to 5.) 



5. Femur of Elephas Melitensis. 



1 College of Surgeons, August 14, 1860. — Examined the repaired 

 shaft of the Zebbug Proboscidean femur, and compared it with that of 

 Choonee's skeleton. 1 The general resemblance is excessively close. 

 There is the same bridge between the epiphysis of the head and of the 

 trochanter ; there is also exactly the same deep fossa (like a foramen) 

 below the epiphysis of the trochanter, in both ; and the same general 

 form of the lower end. But the following differences are seen : — 



' 1. The hollow descending, on the posterior side of the fossil below 

 the trochanter, is much more pronounced. 



■ 2. The hollow in front (running in same direction) which is so great 

 in fossil is entirely wanting in the existing Elephant. 



' 3. The edges of the base of the trochanter are more angular and 

 pronounced in fossil. 



' 4. The outer edge, below middle of the shaft, is quite sharp in 

 existing species, but much rounder in the fossil. 



' 5. On the inner side behind, leading to the condyle, there is a 

 longitudinal fossa in the fossil, which is wholly wanting in the existing 

 Elephant ; but the outer posterior sides are alike. 



' 6. The foramen of medullary artery in the fossil is exactly as in the 

 femur of Mammoth in the case in the British Museum ; in Choonee's 

 skeleton it is situated on the inner side, in a line contiguous with pro- 

 jecting part of head.' (See PI. XIV. figs. 6 to 10.) 



' British Museum, August 9, 1860. — Examined a transverse section 

 from the middle of the shaft of the broken Zebbug left femur. The 

 centre is a compressed flattened hollow tube, the inner surface of which 

 1 See antea, p. 268.— [Ed.] 



