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with respect to the Elephant of Southern India, compared with the 
E. sumatbanu s of Ceylon, since these districts approach one ano¬ 
ther very nearly. We have, it is true, no more reasons for answer¬ 
ing these questions in the affirmative than the negative ; hut they 
must be determined by ascertaining the facts, in order to know the 
exact boundaries of the range of E. nsuicus.” 
On this subject, I have to remark, that (at the present time at 
least,) the Elephant is quite as much an imported or introduced 
animal in Bengal proper, as it is in Java; for the very few that roam 
the Rajmahal hills are known to be animals escaped from their 
quondam human owners, and perhaps there may be some that are 
the progeny of such escaped animals. The appellation of “ Bengalese 
Elephant,” habitually made use of by Prof. Schlegel, is therefore 
inappropriate; although wild Elephants do exist, chiefly on 
the eastern outskirts of the province, and along the base of the 
Himalayas. I have not had the opportunity of examining the grind¬ 
ers of wild Elephants from the peninsula of India; but I have 
lost no chance of examining those of wild Burmese Elephants, 
which indicate the species to be indicus, as distinguished from su- 
MATbanus. Even here I must remark, that the tame Elephants 
employed at Moulmain, so celebrated for their intelligence in piling 
timber, &e., (which feats I have witnessed,) and also those extensively 
employed in the teak-forests of the interior, are brought down all 
the way from the Shan states ; the Burmese method of hunting wild 
Elephants proving successful only in procuring small individuals, 
below the commissariat standard, and unequal to the labours impos¬ 
ed by the timber-merchants. The entire Indo-Chinese region (or 
1 trans-Gangetic India ,’ though even Hither China’ would much 
better express the affinities of the human inhabitants,) would appear to 
be emphatically the main habitat of E. ikdicus, seemingly extending 
down the Malayan peninsula in one direction, and along the south¬ 
ern base of the Himalayas in another: there are still many in the 
Deyra Boon; and others in Cuttack, Central India, Malabar, &c., 
which it has now become desirable to examine more critically* 
According to Professor Schlegel,—“The Elephant of Sumatra and 
Ceylon (E. sumatranus) has small ears, like E. inuicus ; and ap¬ 
proaches this species also in the form of its skull, and the number 
of the caudal vertebrae : but the laminae of its teeth are wider ; and 
