CLASS MAMMALS: ORDER PROBOSCIDEA. 

 Fig. ms. 



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Mg. I». 



Eliphas africdnm, African Elephant. 



Asiatic species is alone tamed at the present day.* It has a 

 concave forehead, 

 small ears, and the 

 enamel of the teeth 

 arranged in trans- 

 verse bands. The 

 African species has 

 a convex forehead, 

 enormous ears, and 

 the enamel of the 

 teeth lozenge- 

 shaped. Both sexes 

 have tusks, the 

 male's often being 

 eight feet long and 

 weighing a hundred 

 pounds. 



E. indicm, Asiatic Elephant. 



* Its intelligence is sometimes almost hnman. It can he tanght to lay stone wall, 

 and to pile logs uniformly, rolling them np an inclined plane. It is even entrusted 

 with the care of young children— the huge nurse being lavish in its attentions, and 

 when its charge crawls between its legs, moving with the utmost caulion, and, with 

 its trunk, carelhlly lifting the child out of the way. Tennant, in his work on Ceylon 



