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hairs, in which respect it reminds one rather of the African than the 

 Indian Elephant, and, lastly, that the Sumatran animal is more re- 

 markable for its intellectual development than the Indian.* 



" The last mentioned observation agrees, in a remarkable way," 

 continues Prof. Schlegel, " with what Heer Diard has lately written 

 concerning the Elephant of Ceylon. He says, on this matter, — " 1' 

 Elephant cle Ceylan se distingue de celui des Indes par une aptitude 

 d'intelligence instinctive, celle de facile edueabilite : aussi ces Elc- 

 phans de Cejdan, de tout temps recherches par les Princes de l'lnde 

 se trouvent l'etre encore aujourdhui plus qu' aucun outre par les 

 Anglais pour les differens services auxquel on les employe. Jai eu 

 l'occasion d'observer pleusenrs grandes troupes de ces animaux et 

 une particulierement, qui avais finie par se laisser prendre dans une 

 grande enceinte etablie par les ordres du Grouvernment, qui a cette 

 epoque ou la guerre de l'lnde etait encore loin d'etre terminee faisait 

 tout ce qu'il est possible pour recruiter un certain nombre de ces 

 animaux afin de les deriger vers le Bengale." 



From my own familiar observation of the intelligence of tame Ele- 

 phants, whether in Lower Bengal, Oudh, or Burma, I am inclined to 

 doubt exceedingly the alleged fact of the superior qualities, in this 

 respect, of the Cinghalese Elephant. Individual differences occur, no 

 doubt, as mother animals ; and no slight diversity of character. I also 

 do not remember that any Elephants arrived at Calcutta from Ceylon 

 during the period of the repression of the Indian mutinies ; though 

 some may have been sent, likely enough, from that island to Madras. 

 The grand importation, at that time, of Elephants into Calcutta was 

 from the ports of Rangoon and Moulmein ; and the animals in ques- 

 tion were brought thither from the Shan states beyond the British 

 boundary. 



The assigned habitat of Calcutta for a tame Elephant may be 

 estimated from the following extract : — 



Col. A. P. Phayre, now Chief Commissioner of British Burma, 

 remarks, in his ' Report on the Administration of the Province of 

 Pegu' during 185S-9, that — " Not less than one thousand and thirty- 

 four (1,03-1) Elephants have been shipped from Eangoon and Moul- 

 mein, for the Madras coast and Bengal, during the period extending 



* It may hero be noticed that Prof. Schlegel has reason to suspect the exist- 

 ence of more than one species of African Elephant. 



