. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . da . M. Mitchell. lO 8 4 10 Tana Valley Major H. De Pree. lO 7 Jumbo ? Barnum and Bailey. lO 6 4 8 Tana Valley Capt. C. Hankey. lO 6 Africa F. C. Selous. lO 3 21 0 51 Nyasaland Sir John Kirk. 9 7i 4 63(dried) Somaliland V^iscount Edmond de Poncins. Length of humerus 3 ft. 8 ins. - Length f rom root of tail to eye, in straight line. With reference toin Elephant Hunting the height of elephants, the late Mr. A. H. Neumann,in East Equatorial Africa, stated that I am an AFRICAN
. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . da . M. Mitchell. lO 8 4 10 Tana Valley Major H. De Pree. lO 7 Jumbo ? Barnum and Bailey. lO 6 4 8 Tana Valley Capt. C. Hankey. lO 6 Africa F. C. Selous. lO 3 21 0 51 Nyasaland Sir John Kirk. 9 7i 4 63(dried) Somaliland V^iscount Edmond de Poncins. Length of humerus 3 ft. 8 ins. - Length f rom root of tail to eye, in straight line. With reference toin Elephant Hunting the height of elephants, the late Mr. A. H. Neumann,in East Equatorial Africa, stated that I am an AFRICAN ELEPHANT 483 unbeliever in r 4 ft. elephants or anything like it. Possibly (though Idoubt even that) there may be a i 2 ft. one in existence, but I have hadsome experience (and probably more opportunities of judging thanmost of those who pose as authorities), and I have never killed onethat could be absolutely guaranteed to be over 11 ft, 3 ins. in height(to be quite on the safe side, for as a fact I made it an inch more). Ihave killed two of that height in my time, and not another withinseveral inches of African Elephant Tusk in Ihc American National CoUecti Tusks. Length Greatest w • u i .• <outside curve), circumference, height. Locality. II ins. 541oj ins. East Africa 10 2 •59 Marsaljit 10 2A 24] 226i East Africa 99 ,0 15/ 19119 247 Do. 99 5*1of rSg 120117 Tana Valley 9 5 22^ 184 ? 9 4 20A 160 East Africa Owner. American National Collection.(See illustration.) Y. J. Watson Taylor. British Museum. Charles Pulley. Major H. De Free. Sir Edmund G. Loder, John Kirk. 484 RECORDS OF BIG GAME Length(outside curve). Greatestcircumference. Weight. Locality. Owner. ft. 4 lbs. no East Africa Duke of Westminster. (tip broken)-9 4 151 Elgayu, E. Africa . F. J. Jackson. 9 3l i8^ Tana Valley . Sir Robert Harvey, Bart. -9 3 129 East Africa F. J. Jackson. 9 2:* 20 Tana Valley . Sir Robert Harvey, Bart. 9 2^8 si 2424 340 Uganda . C
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