. Zoological Society bulletin . rst reports that I heard of the existenceof two species of elephants were rather vague,and in some points conflicting; but all concurredin giving a distinctly different name to each ofthe two types described, and in assigning thesmaller one to certain localities. In the Nkami country, where both types arewell known, and as I think very accurately de-scribed, the ordinary elephant is universallyknown as njagu while the smaller one is calledmesalla. All the native hunters concur in mostpoints in their description of the differencesbetween the two races, and this d
. Zoological Society bulletin . rst reports that I heard of the existenceof two species of elephants were rather vague,and in some points conflicting; but all concurredin giving a distinctly different name to each ofthe two types described, and in assigning thesmaller one to certain localities. In the Nkami country, where both types arewell known, and as I think very accurately de-scribed, the ordinary elephant is universallyknown as njagu while the smaller one is calledmesalla. All the native hunters concur in mostpoints in their description of the differencesbetween the two races, and this description isconfirmed by several white traders that I havemet in that country. The common type of elephant is distributedover nearly all parts of the French Congo, whilethe pygmy type is found only in one small lo-cality, in the Fernan Vaz district, and that is onthe north and east sides of Lake Ntyonga, andbetween it and Lake Nenga. They are prob- *A1I rights to text are reserved by the author. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 831. AFRICAN SUDAN ELEPHANTS: KARTOUM AND at four years of age, was six feet, three inches and weighed 2,300 pounds. ably found in some other parts of the FrenchCongo, and I have heard of two other sectionsin which they are said to exist. The districtdescribed is about one degree thirty minutessouth latitude and about seven degrees east lon-gitude. The intersection of those lines wouldbe near the centre of the district in which I haveheard of the mesalla as being most abundant. The ordinary type of African elephant is so wellknown to science, and so frequently seen in cap-tivity, that no description of it is here needed,except such details as are involved in the com-parison with mesalla, the pygmy. The largertype grows to a height of about nine and one-half to ten feet and evidently attains a weightof five or six tons. The tusks of the larger malessometimes reach seven feet in length, about four-sevenths of which are exposed. The mesallaelephant
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