66 MAMMALIA. [Cuap. I. 
PROFESSOR SCHLEGEL of Leyden, in a paper lately sub- 
mitted by him to the Royal Academy of Sciences of 
Holland, (the substance of which he has obligingly 
communicated to me, through Baron Bentinck the Ne- 
therlands Minister at this Court), has confirmed the 
identity of the Ceylon elephant with that found in.the 
Lampongs of Sumatra. The osteological comparison of 
which Temminck has given the results was, he says, con- 
ducted by himself with access to four skeletons of the 
latter. And the more recent opportunity of comparing 
a living Sumatran elephant with one from Bengal, has 
served to establish other though minor points of diver- 
gence. The Indian species is more robust and powerful ; 
the proboscis longer and more slender; and the extre- 
nity, (a point, in which the elephant of Sumatra resem- 
bles that of Africa,)is more flattened and provided with 
coarser and longer hair than that of India. 
Proressor SCHLEGEL, adverting to the large export 
of elephants from Ceylon to the Indian continent, which 
has been carried on from time immemorial, suggests the 
caution with which naturalists, in investigating this 
question, should first satisfy themselves whether the ele- 
phants they examine are really natives of the mainland, 
d'Afrique, est d’environ 12 cen- 
et 15 fausses. L’elephas Indicus 
timétres, tandis que cette longueur 
a 7 vertébres du cou, 19 dorsales, 
nest que de 8 4 10 centimétres 
dans lespéce du continent de I 
Asie. 
“Les autres formes ostéologiques 
sont 4 peu prés les mémes dans les 
trois espéces; mais il y a différence 
dans le nombre des os dont le 
squelette se compose, ainsi que 
le tableau comparatif ci-joint T’é- 
prouve. 
“Telephas Africanus a 7 verte- 
bres du cou, 21 vert. dorsales, 3 
lombaires, 4 sacrées, et 26 caudales; 
21 paires de cétes, dont 6 vraies, 
3 lombaires, 5 sacrées, et 34 cau- 
dales, 19 paires de cdtes, dont 6 
vraies, et 8 fausses. L’elephas Su- 
matranus a 7 vertébres du cou, 20 
dorsales, 3 lombaires, 4 sacrées, et 
84 caudales; 20 paires du cétes, 
dont 6 vraies, et 14 fausses, 
“Ces caractéres ont été constatés 
sur trois squelettes de l’espéce nou- 
velle, un male et une femelle adultes 
et un jeune male. Nous n’avons 
pas encore été 4 méme de nous 
procurer la dépouille de cette 
espéce, ” 
