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MAMMALIA. 
[Chap. 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- 
mity, (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. 
Professor 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 
timetres, tandis que cette longueur a 7 vertebres du cou, 19 dorsales, 
n'est que de 8 a 10 centimetres 3 lombaires, 5 sacrees, et 34 cau- 
dans l'espece du continent de 1' dales, 19 paires de cotes, dont 6 
Asie. vraies, et 3 fausses. L'elephas Su- 
" Les autres formes osteologiques matranus a 7 vertebres du cou, 20 
sont a peu pres les memes dans les dorsales, 3 lombaires, 4 sacrees, et 
trois especes ; mais il y a difference 34 caudales ; 20 paires du cotes, 
dans le nombre des os dont le dont 6 vraies, et 14 fausses. 
squelette se compose, _ ainsi que " Ces caracteres ont ete constates 
le tableau comparatif ci-joint l'e- sur trois squelettesde l'espece nou- 
prouve. velle, un male et une femelle adultes 
"L'elephas Africanus a 7 verte- et un jeune male. Nous n'avons 
bres du cou, 21 vert, dorsales, 3 pas encore 6te a meme de nous 
lombaires, 4 sacrees, et 26 caudales; procurer la depouille de cette 
21 paires de cotes, dont 6 vraies, espece. " 
