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Show 542 MR. A. H. GARROD ON THE INDIAN ELEPHANT. [Nov. 2, stinct from C. dryas, a question open to doubt) to eleven, all of which are.found either in the north-western districts of S. America or in Central America. AuTOMOLUS HOLOSTICTUS, Sp. 110V. Supra niger, usque ad medium dorsum flammulis longis pallide cervinis ornatus: alis et dorso inferiore brunneis, scapularium scapis cervinis : uropygio et cauda tola rubiginoso-rufis : subtus cervi-nus, in ventre magis brunneseens; plumarum marginibus fuscis, et harum scapis dare cervinis : rostro saturate corneo, pedibus fuscis : long, tola 8*5, alee 3*3, caudee rectr. med. 3*7, ext. 2*4, tarsi 1*1. Hab. in Statu Antioquiensi reipubl. Columbianae. Mus. P. L. S. This fine large species at first sight resembles in plumage Thripa-dectes fiammulatus, but has not the peculiarly formed bill of that species, and belongs to the true Automoli, being nearest perhaps to the newly described A. striaticeps (P. Z S. 1875, p. 37). 6. Report on the Indian Elephant which died in the Gardens on July 7th, 1875. By A. H . G A R R O D , M.A., Prosector to the Society. [Received July 15, 1875.] On May 1st, 1851, the Society purchased of Mr. Batty (then of the Circus, Westminster Bridge), for a6'800, an adult female Elephas indicus with its female calf. The specimens had been deposited in the Society's Gardens on the 19th of the preceding month. In the spring of the year 1850, John Stimpson, now keeper in the Society's service, left the E.L Company's military service, and when at Cawnpoor, on his way to Calcutta, met an animal-dealer, Mr. Wallace, who was on his way to Calcutta with the female and calf in question as well as another Elephant. Stimpson is sure that the calf was born after the female had been captured, and thinks that it was three months old when he first saw it. He assisted in taking charge of tbe animals till they arrived in this country: they were five months on the voyage. Of the two specimens purchased by the Society the mother was sold on April 28th, 1854, to the Zoological Society of Brussels, the calf continuing to suckle until that date, i. e. until upwards of four years of age. It is this calf of 1851 which died on July 7th, 1875 (25 years old). The Superintendent, the head keeper, and the Elephant-keepers are of opinion that it continued to grow until within a year of its death. Its height at the withers at the time of its death was just eight feet. For the last four years at. least the animal has lost the power of extending its trunk, from paralysis of the anterior intrinsic muscles of of that organ. It has thus not been able to throw its trunk over its |