. Catalogue of carnivorous, pachydermatous, and edentate Mammalia in the British museum. Mammals. 2. LOXODONTA. 359 Elephaa indicu8 zeylanicus, Slainv. Osf^ogr. t. 1, 23. ElephaB indicus bengalensis, Blainv. OsUoqr. t. 7. Var. ? Elephas sumatranus, Temm. Coup ctcdl (); P. Z. , p. 144. Hah. India; Ceylon (?) ; Sumatra (). The skeleton of the SumatranElephant, which the British Museum received from the Leyden Museum, has not the differences in the number of vertebrae from the Indian one that Temminok gives as characteristic of the Sumatran species. Foetus in the British Museum.—G'm
. Catalogue of carnivorous, pachydermatous, and edentate Mammalia in the British museum. Mammals. 2. LOXODONTA. 359 Elephaa indicu8 zeylanicus, Slainv. Osf^ogr. t. 1, 23. ElephaB indicus bengalensis, Blainv. OsUoqr. t. 7. Var. ? Elephas sumatranus, Temm. Coup ctcdl (); P. Z. , p. 144. Hah. India; Ceylon (?) ; Sumatra (). The skeleton of the SumatranElephant, which the British Museum received from the Leyden Museum, has not the differences in the number of vertebrae from the Indian one that Temminok gives as characteristic of the Sumatran species. Foetus in the British Museum.—G'my, P. 1868, p. 491, f. 1. Kg. FcBtus of Indian Elephant of the natural size. 2. LOXODONTA. Lamina of the teeth with lozenge-shaped crown. SkuU subglo- bular, forehead shelving, crown rounded ; front of lower jaw acute, produced. Trunk conical, thick at the base. Ears very large. Loxodonta, F. Cuvier, Denis Mamm. Lozodonta africana. (African Elephant.) Loxodonta africana, Grm/, lAst Mamm. B. M. 1843; Oerrard, Cat. Bmes B. M. Elephas africanus, Blumenh. Albild. t. 19. f. o; Kirk, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 654; Giebel, Siiugeth. p. 159; Blainv. OaUogr. Gravigrades, t. 3 (skull), t. 7 & 9 (teeth). Elephas maximus (part.), lAtm. Hah. South Africa, Cape of Good Hope; West Africa; East Africa, Mossambique. See E. irmgnus and E. planidens, Falconer, Palseont. Mem. i. t. 4; E. ganesa, Falconer, Palseont. Mem. 6. f. 1. Professor Owen thinks that the depth of the cleft between the laminae of the teeth of some of the Asiatic fossil Elephants may form a passage to the Mastodons (see Palaeont. p. 356). This suborder is particularly rich in fossil genera. The family of Mastodontidce, with their tubercular grinders and elongated cylin- drical tusks in the lower jaw, contains the genera Jfa*toc?on (Cnvier),. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustratio
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