Nov. 18, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
735 
SIAMESE ELEPHANTS AND IVORY. 
Vice-Consul General Carl C. Hanson, of 
Bangkok, estimates that the number of domesti¬ 
cated elephants in Siam is about 3.000. The sup¬ 
ply has been decreasing yearly and prices have 
advanced until now a fid! grown male timber 
elephant is worth about $2,300 and a female 
$1,600. 
Travel in northern Siam, especially during the 
rainy season, would be impossible without the 
elephant, and he is used to great advantage in 
the teak-wood industry. An elephant is full 
grown at 25 years, but not in full vigor until 35. 
The length of life is 80 to 150 years, and the 
average weight is about three tons. In Siam 
the elephant carries only 250 to 550 pounds, ac¬ 
cording to the size of the animal. 
No estimate can be made of the number of 
wild elephants in the jungles of Siam, but in one 
of the elephant “drives” in the Ayuthia district 
recently more than 200 were seen at one time. 
These drives are held yearly in the various dis¬ 
tricts of Siam, during which great numbers of 
the animals are driven into a stockade. The 
finest specimens are then captured and later 
tamed and trained for domestic use. The dis¬ 
trict of Ayuthia is famous for its drives, and the 
King usually attends when large events are 
arranged for. Permission to capture wild ele¬ 
phants may be obtained from the Siamese gov¬ 
ernment, and for each animal caught a royalty 
of $150 is paid, but such capture is exceedingly 
difficult and expensive and the animal often dies 
before it is properly trained. 
The export of ivory for the fiscal year ended 
March 31, 1910, amounted to 4.301 pounds, 
valued at $8,489, and that is a fair average of 
the export for the past five years. Such ivory 
is obtained from domestic elephants that have 
died a natural death, as the animal is not hunted 
in Siam for its ivory. Ivory is also carved 
locally. 
HAWK IN TOWN. 
A black hawk swooped down on a lot of 
pigeons flying at Third and Melrose avenues 
and 149th street, the Bronx, recently, captured 
one, and then flew with it to one of the steeples 
of the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Con¬ 
ception. There it calmly ate its dinner, while a 
crowd of small boys with air rifles, bean shoot¬ 
ers, and stones tried to kill it, and at least a 
thousand persons looked on. 
Herbert Marx, of 2940 Third avenue, was fly¬ 
ing his flock from his roof about 10 o’clock, 
when the big hawk put in an appearance, look¬ 
ing for the most convenient breakfast. The 
twenty-five handsome, plump pigeons circling 
around in fun under him seemed too good to 
be true. He picked out a fat white one, swooped 
down in a spiral like Hamilton in his aeroplane 
for a few seconds, and then suddenly dropped 
like a shot on the pigeon, which had seen its 
enemy, but was not as quick as the others in 
getting out of the way. 
Several hundred persons saw the capture. 
Then the crowd grew quickly to a thousand. 
All stopped to watch the bird of prey. The church 
has three steeples, the large middle one and two 
smaller ones. He alighted on one of these, and 
the feathers of the pigeon began to fly. 
Young Marx got permission from the priests 
to go up into the steeple to a little window, 
from which he reached out with a long stick. 
He could just reach the talons of the hawk, and 
once in a while could touch them enough to 
make the bird of prey angry enough to peck 
back. He would peck and bite at the stick, and 
then eat some pigeon, and peck at the stick 
again. But he finished the pigeon.—Times. 
A DETERMINED SPORTSMAN. 
He had returned from a long, weary, unsuc¬ 
cessful fishing trip. A dog ran across the road, 
barking fiercely. 
“Aren’t you afraid he’ll attack you?” asked 
the friend. 
“I wish he would. I’d take almost any kind 
of a chance to be able to go home and say I 
have had just one bite.”—Washington Star. 
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