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seen a tuskless elephant of either sex, and I doubt if there are 
any where I have hunted. 
Another feature which I have noticed, as characteristic of 
the elephants of these equatorial regions (at all events, on the 
eastern side of Africa), and in which they seem to differ some¬ 
what from those of farther north (I do not know whether the 
The Big Tusk (8 ft. in., 165 lbs.) presented by the Officers serving 
in British East Africa to H.R.H. the Duke of York 
ON THE OCCASION OF HIS MARRIAGE. 
(From a Photograph by Mr. J. R. W. Pigott.) 
same applies to the southern representatives or not), is the ear. I 
have been much struck with this difference when conferring with 
Mr. Caldwell (the artist who has drawn many of my elephant 
pictures with such painstaking care) on the subject of illustrations 
for this book ; and from my descriptions and measurements, in 
