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animal on a lower level than the hunter must be placed in the concavity just 
above the “ boss.'’ If the animal is standing three-quarter lace to the hunter 
with only one eye visible, the shot must be placed between the eye and the 
orifice of the ear. If the animal is broadside on, shoot straight into the orifice 
of the ear. If he be standing with his head three-quarters xrom you with an e\e 
still visible, shoot behind the ear, when he flaps it forwards, just on a level with 
the orifice. It is essential to get as close as possible. 
Measurements.—Twice the circumference of an elephant s foot gives almost 
exactly the height at the shoulder. Adult males do not as a rule exceed 9 ft., 
females 8 ft. The tusks vary greatly in length and weight from 8 ft. down to 
a few inches, and weigh anything up to 150 lbs. a pair. 
Record Measurements. —That good sportsman, inaccurate observer and 
eccentric vegetarian faddist, the late G. P. Sanderson, in Thirteen I ears among 
the Wild Beasts of India , scouts the idea of a 10 ft. elephant and declares 9 
ft. 10 ins. to be the largest he ever saw—and he saw many hundreds. Major- 
Genl. A. A. Kinloch gives the height of one he shot at 10 ft. 1 in. and in 
Sterndale’s Mammalia we have one of 10 ft. < ins. which is the alleged height 
of the famous Bulrampore fighting elephant. At the Bulrampore Zoo there is 
the skeleton of an elephant which tapes exactly 10 ft. 6 ins. at the shoulder. 
Writing to the Indian Field on the 20th October 1907 of a huge tusker shot by 
