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GREAT GAME ANIMALS. 



in the densest jungle. Elephants usually go about in herds 

 numbering from 30 to 50 individuals, but the older bulls frequently 

 dwell alone for a time. Others — known as " rogues 3) — are 

 permanently solitary. Of this species a stuffed specimen is 

 placed in the Fossil Mammal Gallery ; it belongs to the race in 

 which the tusks are not fully developed. When alive, this 

 Elephant was brought from India by H.M. the King when Prince 

 of Wales, and it lived for many years in the Zoological Society's 

 Gardens in the Regent's Park. The Mammoth was closely allied to 

 the Indian species, from which it differed by the greater curvature 

 of the tusks, and the coat of woolly, reddish hair, interspersed with 

 bristles. Remnants of this woolly covering have been detected in 

 the living species ; and in new-born calves, as shown by a specimen 

 in the Fossil Mammal Gallery, it is strongly developed. 



An Upper Molar of the Asiatic (A), and of the African Elephant (B). 



Among several skulls exhibited, the finest is one belonging to 

 an elephant shot by Mr. G. P. Sanderson, in the Garo Hills, 

 Assam, in 1888. Two tusks bequeathed by Lt.-Colonel G. M. 

 Payne respectively weigh 77 and 73 lbs. 



