Identifier: gameanimalsofafr00lyde (find matches)
Title: The game animals of Africa
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting Big game animals
Publisher: London, R. Ward, limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Fig. 3.—Head of the North Rhodesiaii Elephantin the British Museum. 6 AFRICAN ELEPHANT lappet much elongated, although somewhat rounded at the tip ; andthe tusks are very long and slender. The type specimen of this race
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PIG. 4. — Male Elephant, prol)abIy belonging to the Lake Rudolf race, in the Royal ScottishMuseum, Edinburgh. Mounted in the Rowland Ward Studios. is preserved in the private museum of Mr. C. V. A. Peel at Oxford, but anelephants head from south-east Africa in the Hon. Walter Rothschildsmuseum at Tring (fig. 5) apparently belongs to the same type. RACES 7 Somewhat farther to the north-east we have the Lake Rudolfelephant (E. a. cavcndisJii), which is nearly allied to the last, but hasbroader ears, with a shorter lappet. In the type specimen, which waskilled by Mr. H. S. H. Cavendish to the east of the Lake, and is in

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