AFRICAN ELEPHANT 



447 



great mammals which forty or fifty years ago thronged the interior 

 from the Orange River northwards, but a few troops are now left south 

 of the Zambesi. In all Khama's country of Bamangwato, for instance, 

 where Gordon Gumming, Oswell, and others shot most of their elephants, 

 only one solitary troop remains ! 



ft. 



10 



'Jumbo'' 



Owner. 

 Barnum and Bailey. 



Male shot by James J. Harrison in the Ghiperoni Forest, 

 Mozambique Province. 



Trunk-tip to crown 

 Crown to tail-tip 

 Vertical standing height 



ft. in. 



9 9 



17 3 



II I 



ft. in. 

 Girth of forearm . . . .46 

 ,, fore-foot ... . . 4 n 

 The tusks were not very large. 



Estimated height of a huge tuskless male shot by Mr. F. Vaughan 

 Kirby in the Ghiringoma Forest, lo feet 8 or 9 inches, circumference 

 of forefoot 60 inches. 



Male shot in Portuguese East Africa by F. Vaughan Kirby. 



ft. ir 



Length from trunk-tip to crown 

 ,, crown to tail-tip . 



Vertical shoulder height . 

 Perpendicular diameter of left ear 

 over the flap .... 



Girth of left fore-foot 



7 

 9 

 6i 



5 9 

 4 10 



ft. in. 

 Greatest height above ground as it 



lay dead 5 4 



Right tusk on the curve . . . 5 lo 



Left „ „ . . . 5 ii| 



Greatest circumference . . . ig 



Weight, right 77 lbs., left SiJ lbs. 



Mr. A. H. Neumann, in his Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial 

 Africa, records the following among other dimensions : — 



The three first were old bulls of the type found, as a rule, in separate herds. The last was a "herd bull" or 

 breeding male. 



