Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 105
seventy inches in-length from end ofnose to base of tail, and the tail itself is twelveinches long. The weight of this animal is fourhundred and nineteen pounds. All these figuresare offered subject to correction. The female is believed to be only two yearsold. It stands eighteen inches high at the… … By permission of the New York Zoological Society.A PYGMY ELEPHANT. 1912.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 75 hippo of the large species. Its skull is more con-vex, or rounded, on its upper surface, than thatof H. amphibius; its legs are longer and moreslender in proportion, and its eyes do not…
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