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as 1 0 feet 7 J inches ; Col. Hamilton says that Sir Y . Brooke 
killed one of 11 feet.” 
The tallest male elephant that I actually saw measured in 
India was “Chandra Sekaren,” belonging to H.H. the 
Maharaja of Travancore ; this animal was at the shoulder 
10 feet (3’ 04 metres). 
The tallest female elephant that I actually saw measured 
in India was one belonging to H.H. the Maharaja of Alwar; 
she was at the shoulder just 9 feet (2*74 metres). 
In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, I saw the skeleton of 
Mr. W. M. Smith’s Bilkandi elephant, January 19, 1870. 
Mr. Blanford wrote (loc. cit.supra^ p. 464) : “ A skeleton, now 
in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, measures 11 feet 3 inches, so 
the animal when living, if the skeleton is correctly mounted, 
must have been nearly 12 feet high.” But in a foot-note 
Mr. Blanford adds : “ Since the above was written, I have 
been told by Mr. Sanderson that he compared the femur of 
the Calcutta skeleton with that of an elephant known to have 
been less than 1 0 feet high, and only found one-eighth inch 
difference in length.” 
For many years I have heard of “Jung Pershad,” the late 
Sir Jung Bahadoor’s favourite elephant that was used in 
catching wild elephants in the Nepal Terai, as being probably 
the largest known living Indian elephant, but I do not 
know “Jung Pershad’s” actual dimensions. 
A female elephant from Mysore, called “Zebi,” which lived 
in England, in the Zoological Garden at Clifton, near Bristol, 
from 1868 till 1910, when she died at the age of about fifty 
years, grew to a great size. Her head is now mounted in 
the Bristol Museum, and on the label it is stated that she 
“was believed to be the second largest Indian elephant known, 
her height being approximately 10 feet and her weight about 
5 tons.” Unfortunately the label does not state whether she 
was measured at the shoulder when alive. 
3. — Size of Elephants’ Tusks. 
Mr. Blanford {loc. cit. supra^ p. 464) writes : “Tusks vary 
greatly, the longest recorded I believe (Sir Y. Brooke’s from 
Mysore) measured 8 feet and weighed 90 lbs., but a shorter 
