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  NOTES 
  AND 
  QUERIES. 
  

  

  MAMMALIA. 
  

  

  "Elephant 
  Cemeteries." 
  — 
  There 
  has 
  recently 
  been 
  some 
  discussion 
  

   in 
  the 
  papers 
  relative 
  to 
  the 
  stock 
  of 
  ivory 
  lying 
  at 
  the 
  Loudon 
  Docks, 
  

   and 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  stated 
  that 
  at 
  least 
  85 
  per 
  cent, 
  of 
  the 
  supply 
  is 
  " 
  dead 
  

   ivory" 
  obtained 
  from 
  "Elephant 
  cemeteries," 
  spots 
  met 
  with 
  here 
  

   and 
  there 
  in 
  the 
  jungle 
  where 
  Elephants 
  have 
  resorted 
  for 
  centuries 
  

   to 
  die. 
  Very 
  few 
  of 
  these 
  spots 
  seem 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  discovered 
  by 
  

   travellers, 
  and 
  scarcely 
  any 
  record 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  books 
  of 
  travel. 
  

   On 
  recently 
  consulting 
  an 
  old 
  work 
  in 
  my 
  possession, 
  ' 
  African 
  Memo- 
  

   randa 
  relative 
  to 
  an 
  Attempt 
  to 
  establish 
  a 
  British 
  Settlement 
  on 
  the 
  

   Island 
  of 
  Bulama,' 
  &c, 
  by 
  Capt. 
  Philip 
  Beaver, 
  published 
  in 
  1805, 
  I 
  

   came 
  across 
  the 
  following 
  passage: 
  — 
  "That 
  district 
  of 
  the 
  Biafara 
  

   country 
  which 
  is 
  comprised 
  between 
  the 
  river 
  issuing 
  from 
  the 
  Geba 
  

   Lake 
  (which 
  empties 
  itself 
  into 
  the 
  sea 
  a 
  little 
  below 
  Courbaly 
  to 
  the 
  

   eastward 
  of 
  Bissaoi 
  and 
  the 
  Kio 
  Grande, 
  together 
  with 
  the 
  island 
  of 
  

   Bulama, 
  abounds 
  with 
  Elephants. 
  The 
  number 
  of 
  these 
  animals 
  on 
  

   this 
  little 
  island 
  almost 
  exceeds 
  belief 
  ; 
  it 
  was 
  nearly 
  impossible 
  for 
  

   us 
  to 
  proceed 
  fifty 
  yards 
  inland 
  without 
  meeting 
  recent 
  and 
  palpable 
  

   vestiges 
  of 
  them, 
  and 
  the 
  skeletons 
  of 
  old 
  ones 
  that 
  had 
  died 
  in 
  the 
  

   woods 
  were 
  frequently 
  found." 
  The 
  writer 
  also 
  proceeded 
  to 
  say 
  that, 
  

   although 
  these 
  animals 
  frequently 
  swam 
  across 
  that 
  arm 
  of 
  the 
  sea 
  

   which 
  separates 
  Bnlania 
  from 
  the 
  Biafara 
  peninsula, 
  which 
  is 
  about 
  two 
  

   miles 
  in 
  breadth, 
  none 
  were 
  ever 
  seen 
  attempting 
  to 
  swim 
  back 
  to 
  the 
  

   continent. 
  — 
  W. 
  L. 
  Distant. 
  

  

  Daubenton's 
  Bat 
  iMyotis 
  daubentoni) 
  in 
  Middlesex. 
  — 
  One 
  evening 
  

   last 
  August, 
  as 
  a 
  friend 
  and 
  I 
  were 
  standing 
  on 
  the 
  bridge 
  near 
  Ted- 
  

   dington 
  Lock, 
  we 
  observed 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  Bats 
  flying 
  low 
  over 
  the 
  water. 
  

   I 
  suspected 
  they 
  might 
  be 
  Myotis 
  daubsntpni, 
  and 
  we 
  resolved 
  to 
  try 
  

   and 
  " 
  angle" 
  for 
  them. 
  We 
  baited 
  a 
  very 
  small 
  fish-hook 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  

   piece 
  of 
  tissue-paper 
  ; 
  this, 
  being 
  attached 
  to 
  a 
  long 
  piece 
  of 
  cotton, 
  

   was 
  allowed 
  to 
  float 
  over 
  the 
  bridge 
  a 
  few 
  feet 
  from 
  the 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  

   water. 
  In 
  about 
  five 
  minutes 
  we 
  felt 
  a 
  tug, 
  and 
  found 
  a 
  Bat 
  had 
  been 
  

   caught. 
  This 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  above 
  species. 
  — 
  Gordon 
  Dalgliesh 
  

   (29, 
  Larkfield 
  Road, 
  Richmond, 
  Surrey). 
  

  

  