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median expansion of the worn enamel-disks of the ridges, which thus 

 approach a lozenge-shape. The range of this species in England does 

 not extend northwards of Yorkshire, and it goes as far south as Algeria, 



Fig. 12S3. — Upper molar of Elephas meridionalis, one-third natural size; from the 

 Upper Pliocene of Tuscany. 1 



where the allied E. atlanticus is also found. From the molars of E. 

 antiquus there is but a step to those of the existing African Elephant 

 (fig. 1285), in which the enamel-disks assume a still more decided lozenge- 



Fig. 1284. — The second right lower true molar of Elephas antiquus; from the Pleistocene 

 of England. One-third natural size. 



shape ; and the small E. mnaidrietisis and E. melitensis, of the Pleisto- 

 cene cavern and fissure-deposits of the Maltese and neighbouring islands, 

 are more or less closely allied forms. The height of the smallest indi- 



Fig. 1285.— A right upper true molar of Elephas africanus ; Recent. Africa. 

 One-third natural size. 



viduals of the last-named, or " Pigmy Elephant," is estimated as not 

 greater than three feet. Another peculiar Elephant is E. namadicus, 

 from the Pleistocene of the Narbada Valley, in Western India, and Japan, 



1 The hinder part of this tooth is to the left; the position of the preceding 

 figure being the reverse. 



