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JfAMJIALS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND, 
In Kltland. — Eesident, and generally distributed. — I saw in the possession 
of Henry Cunnington, keeper to Lord Gainsborough, a pretty variety, which 
had a broad band of white across the middle of the back, and its tail purely 
white, two-thirds from the tip. Cunnington shot it in llushpit Wood, about 
1878. 
Order UNGULATA. 
Sub-order PROJJOSCIDEA. 
Family ELEPHANTID.F . 
IMAMMOTH. Elephas primigenius (Blumenbach). 
Of Early Pleistocene age, but not extending into the Pre-Historic. — A 
perfect tooth from the valley of the Soar, 1849, was presented to the iMuseum 
by Mr. John Plant. A ludicrous mistake occurs in the ‘ Report of the Leicester 
Lit. and Phil. Soc.’ for 1861, p. 20, where is recorded the donation, 
by 31r. .lohn Eoughton, of “ teeth and portion of tush of an extinct species 
of Rhinoceros (R. tichoi'kinus) from a gravel-pit, Belgrave.” The IMuseum 
Donation-book records these as having been found at a depth of 9 ft., in 
Jan., 1861, and presented on the 31st. The teeth are, of course, referrible 
to the Rhinoceros, but the tusk is a portion of that of an Elephant, 
probably the present species. A remarkably fine tusk was found in Oct., 
1863, in Sydney Street, Belgrave Road, Leicester, 11 ft. from the surface, 
in the drift gravel, and resting upon the upper Keuper marls. It 
measured in situ 9 ft. on the curve, but being extremely friable, in spite 
of the utmost care, some portion of it was lost. The remaining portion — 
presented by the Literary and Philosophical Society, on the 28th Oct. — after 
being skilfully treated by the late IMr. J. E. Weatherhead, the then Curator, 
found a I’csting-place in the Museum, where it still remains. Its measurements 
are: — Length of curve, 6 ft. 2 in.; circumference, 2 ft.; diameter, 8 in. A 
portion of a smaller, but longer, tusk, from the drift in Hutchinson's gravel-pit, 
Sydney Street, Belgrave Road, reached the IMuseum through the exertions of 
IMr. Francis Drake, F.G.S., and is probably the one recorded in the Donation-book 
as having been found 13 ft. 6 in. below the surface, in the Belgrave Road, on 
6th Sept., 1867. The end of a tusk, 6 inches in length, was found at Humberstone 
in 1866, and presented to the Mnseum, 1st Jan., 1867, by IMr. B. "Warrington. 
This has been cut off irregularly, but whether before or after it was found, there 
is no evidence to prove. Three flakes from the outside of a tusk were found 
at Belgrave in 1876 (probably 10th March), and presented by IMr. G. H. 
Nevinson. The Belgrave, Abbey IMeadow, and other river-gravels have also 
furnished numerous teeth, many of which are now in the Museum. 
