Image: The game animals of Africa (1908) (14755035072)

Description: 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 Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: 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 Text Appearing After Image: 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 Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The game animals of Africa (1908) (14755035072)
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