616 REPORT OF THE HARVARD AFRICAN EXPEDITION 
It is curious that we saw and heard nothing of the hyrax in all our journey, 
although Dr. Bequaert saw a young one that was brought in by natives on the 
Farmington River at Lenga Town. Stampfli secured specimens on the same river 
and one on the Junk at Schieffelinsville, that later became the type of Jentink’s 
stampflii; Bittikofer obtained this animal on the Du as well. He writes that he 
first was attracted to it by hearing its loud kerr note at Hill Town on his second 
journey to Liberia. By offering a good reward he at length had several brought 
in alive in baskets. They would erect their dorsal hair, spreading out the white 
tuft and stamping with their fore feet, and were quick to bite. The natives cap- 
tured them by blocking up their holes in hollow trees, then chopping the tree 
down, covering the hole with a fish net, and catching the animals when they ran 
out. Their holes were usually some eight to fifteen feet up in trunks covered 
with lianas, and could easily be told by the abundant droppings. In one such 
trunk were captured a male, female, and young. The old ones eventually es- 
eaped, but the young one became very tame and would climb a square table-leg 
by pressing the soles of its feet against opposite sides.. After various fruitless 
attempts to feed his captives, Biittikofer found that they would take cassava 
leaves readily. Bates writes that in the Cameroons, they feed a good deal on the 
ground, and will climb among hanging vines. The Crowned Hawk Eagle is one 
of their special enemies. 
PROBOSCIDEA 
ELEPHANTIDAE Elephants 
Loxodonta africana cyclotis (Matschie). West African Elephant 
Elephas cyclotis Matschie, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin, 1900, p. 194: Southern Cameroons, 
near Yaunde. 
Said to be distinguished from other races of African elephants by the shape of the ear, which is 
described as an oval with a half ellipse on the lower part; this ellipse or lappet has its free border 
shorter than the distance from the inner lower insertion of the ear to its top. 
The discrimination of the subspecies of African elephants is still most un- 
satisfactory. Lydekker (1907) attempted to review these and recognized several 
races chiefly on characters of the ear in mounted specimens, the original shape of 
which was undoubtedly much altered by the taxidermist’s work of preparation. 
He followed Matschie in supposing the West African form to be rounder-eared 
than those of East Africa, although he adduced no new evidence of its distinct- 
ness. Apparently the ear of the Liberian elephant has not been figured hereto- 
fore, hence we present herewith a photograph of one cut from an elephant killed 
by natives some hours’ march from Paiata, near the St. Paul’s River. It is 
assumed that the elephants of the coastal forest strip are the same as those of the 
Cameroons, where cyclotis is typical, but this is by no means certain. 
Elephants occur in the more densely forested parts of Liberia, but apparently 
seldom come out to the coast. Buttikofer relates finding a skull in the forest at 
Soforé Place, while nearby, on an island in the St. Paul’s River, lived a big old 
