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musicians. Grand symphonies were less to its taste. It seemed 
to understand melody more easily than scientific harmony. I 
know more than one man who is an Elephant in this respect. 
When the concert was oyer, the sensible Pachyderm approached 
one of the musicians, who, by his performance on the horn, had 
particularly affected it. The animal knelt down before him, caressed 
him with its trunk, and ex- 
pressed to him in all sorts 
of pretty ways the pleasure 
which it had felt in listen- 
ing to him. 
After these general con- 
siderations on the organi- 
zation and the habits of 
Elephants, we will pass on 
to consider more particu- 
larly the different species of 
this family. Those now 
existing, however, are only 
two in number, the Ele- 
phant of Asia and the Ele- 
phant of Africa.* 
The Asiatic Elephant at 
present inhabits nearly the 
whole of the Indian regions, 
inclusive of Siam, the Bur- 
mese Empire, and India 
properly so called. It is 
found also in the island of 
Ceylon, in Sumatra, and 
there are some in the great 
island of Borneo. Its head is broad, flattened on the front of its 
forehead, swelling out on its sides ; its ears are much smaller than 
{Rose of the African Elephant, and differ a little in their propor- 
* The Sumatran Elephant is regarded as a peculiar species by some naturalists, 
hut the late Dr. Falconer has shown clearly that it is one and the same with that of 
continental Asia. We have lately seen a living Sumatran Elephant in the Zoological 
G-arden at Rotterdam, and assuredly could not perceive any difference from the 
Indian Elephant. We have had many opportunities of studying the variations 
observable in the latter species, of which, upon one occasion, we examined 294, which 
were ranged for the inspection by the local head of the military commissariat. — -E d. 
