RANGE OF THE COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH 133 
ton in the American Museum of Natural History stands 11 
feet in height, and its remarkable incurving tusks have an 
extreme length on the curve of 11 feet 514 inches. It is from 
the Pleistocene of Indiana. As it stands it requires a reading 
AFRICAN ELEPHANT “JUMBO.” 
Actual height at shoulders, 10 feet 9 inches (1883). 
of the label to assure the visitor that it is not an ancient skele- 
ton of a modern Jumbo. 
The geographic range of the Columbian Mammoth af- 
fords a curious exception to the rule of elephant distribution 
in North America. It is almost coincident with that of the 
American and Alaskan moose! From New Brunswick and 
Maine it sweeps across the continent, covering the northern 
United States and much of southern Canada to Vancouver. 
Thence it extends northwestwardly throughout the Rocky 
