218 ON THE FOSSIL BONES OF PACHYDERMATOUS QUADRUPEDS. 



elephant. That of Valentin*, copied by Labat f, and altered by 

 Kolbe %, is equally so. 



On the contrary, those of Jonston §, which are very good, and which 

 have served as models for those of Hartenfels ||, from which Ludolph *Q 

 afterwards borrowed his; those of Neuhof**, the tusks of which are 

 merely a little too much turned up ; those of Edwards, in which the 

 head is too round, because it was taken from a young subject to which 

 the tusks were to have been added, are those of the Indian elephant. 



The two drawings of Buffon tt\ copied by Schreber^|, and by 

 Alessandri §§, are the two sexes of the Indian species. 



Meyer gives a tolerably good drawing of a male dauntelah (Vorstell. 

 allerh. thiere, l,pl. lxix); but the skeleton (ib. lxx) is copied from 

 Blair without any correction. 



The foetus of the elephant, preserved at the Hotel of the West India 

 Company, at Amsterdam, and drawn by Seba, torn. 1, pi. iii, is also of 

 the Indian species. 



5. — Differences taken from other parts of the Skeleton beside the Head. 



For the subjects treated in this paragraph I had but one single 

 skeleton of the African species, and of a female, that prepared by 

 Duverney, under Louis XIV., and described by Perrault and Dauben- 

 ton ; but I had three of the Indian species, prepared under my own 

 eyes by M. Rousseau, my prosector. There are two of them male; 

 the first of the variety, called in India mooknah, which never has but 

 very short tusks ; the other of that called dauntelah, or with long 

 tusks, which is at present in the cabinet of the Leyden University. 

 Our animal, which belonged to the variety mooknah by its teeth, be- 

 longed by its form to the variety Komarea, or the squat kind ; the 

 dauntelah, on the contrary, belonged to the variety Merghee, or 

 meagre kind (elancee). Thus they combined in them both the prin- 

 cipal differences which Indian elephants can present. The third is 

 that of a female of this same variety, Komarea, which came from Cey- 

 lon with its male, and had lived a long time with it, both in Hol- 

 land and Paris. 



I also saw a fourth skeleton of a young elephant at Florence, in 

 the cabinet of the Grand Duke, and a fifth, still younger, in London, 

 in the cabinet of M. Brooks. 



Lastly, M. Mertrud preserved some isolated bones of a female of the 

 Indian species, of the variety Komarea, which died in the menagerie of 

 Versailles in 1782, the skin of which, when stuffed, was given by our 

 Museum to the cabinet of the University of Pavia. 



* Amphitheatr. Zoot., tab. 1, fol. 3. 



■f Afr. Occ, iii, p. 271. 



X Relation du cap., trad, fr., in 12, torn, iii, p. 11. 



§ Q,uadr., tab. vii, viii, ix. 



|| Elephantograph. curios, passim. 



\ jEthiop., lib. 1, cap. 9. 

 ** Ambags. Orient., Descv. gen. de la Chine, p. 94. 

 ft Hist. Nat., si. pi. 1, and Suppl., iii, pi. lix, and vi, pi. 11. 

 H Quad., ii, tab. 78. 

 §§ Ibid., 1, pi. 11. 



