Volume 13, Plate II / Mammalia (Mammals)

Elephant of India

Elephas Indicus

Distinguished by an oblong head and concave forehead, the Indian Elephant bears small ears and four nails on the hind feet, its cheek teeth showing undulating transverse ridges. Of brownish gray, thick wrinkled skin thinly set with rigid hairs, it haunts the forests of southern India and eastern islands, and has long served man in war, draught, and burden, its tusks affording the finest ivory.