THE DWARF ELEPHANT. 67 1 



THE DWARF ELEPHANT. 



There were lately landed in New York, by the ship Oxfordshire from 

 Singapore, two strange creatures said to be captured about eight hun- 

 dred miles from Singapore. They were described as being two dwarf 

 elephants from the mountains of the Malay peninsula. They are the 

 first elephants of their species ever brought to this country, and a 

 gentleman who had visited all of the great Zoological Exhibitions in 

 Europe declared that he had not seen anything like them. They are 

 males, and their names are Prince and Sidney. Prince, the larger, is 

 thirty-six inches tall. Sidney is only twenty-eight inches in height. 

 They are supposed to be about five and seven years old, respectively. 

 They are covered with a thick coat of bristly hair. Mr. Reiche calls it 

 wool, and says that he shall style them the woolly elephants. He 

 accounts for this growth by the fact that the elephants lived far up the 

 mountains, where the climate is cold. 



