bull and cow, or cow and calf may be in ous over nearly the whole continent south 
company; very rarely are as many as half of the Sahara, and as it was given to such 
a dozen found together. Moreover, it is extensive occasional wanderings, it is prob- 
coiriparatively stationary in its habits, and able that the examination of a sufficient 
as a general thing stays permanently in one series of specimens would show that on 
neighborhood, not shifting its position for their confines these races grade into one 
very many miles unless for grave reasons, another. In its essentials the beast is al- 
The African elephant has recently been most everywhere the same, although, of 
divided into a number of sub-species; but course, there must be variation of habits 
as within a century its range was continu- with any animal which exists throughout so 
Kikuyu village near first elephant camp. 
From a photograph by Edmund Heller. 
