66 MAMMALIA. , [Chap. I. 



Professor Schlegel of Leyden, in a paper lately sub- 

 mitted by him to the Koyal 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, tandisque 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. Lelephas Su- 



i ' 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 squelettes de l'espece nou- 



prouve. velle, un male et une femelle adultes 



" Belephas Africanus a 7 verte- et un jeune male. Nous n'avons 



bres du cou, 21 vert, dorsales, 3 pas encore ete a meme de nous 



lombaires, 4 sacrees, et 26 caudales; procurer la depouille de cette 



21 paires de cotes, dont 6 vraies, espece. " 



