354 Dr. Forsyth Major — Reported Fossil Camel and Nilghai. 



FstJieria Draperi, Jones : Geol. Mag., 1894, p. 289, PI. IX, 

 Figs. 1 a, h, c. This sub-oblong form is much larger, and 

 has ornamented interspaces, but is the nearest in general 

 form. It was from the Uppermost Karoo beds, in the 

 Drakensberg, Natal. 



Estheria Stowiana, Jones : Geol. Mag., 1894, p. 290, PI. IX, 

 Figs. 2 a, h. This little valve differs from the others 

 especially in its sub -elliptical outline. Having its full 

 complement of numerous concentric ridges, it is not a young 

 form, as suggested in 1894. From the Uppermost Karoo 

 beds, in the Drakensberg, Natal. 



IV. — On the Reported Occurrence of the Camel and the 

 Nilghai in the Upper Miocene of Samos. 



By C. I. Forsyth Major, M.D., F.Z.S. 



IN a notice on " Fossil Camels in Europe," inserted in the 

 periodical Natur und Eaus (1901, ix, 5, p. 179), it is stated 

 that amongst the fossils from Samos in the Stuttgart Museum there 

 occurs, under a wrong name, the well-preserved skull of a Camel, 

 and likewise " a near relative of the Indian Nylgau, Portax pictus" 



On a visit to the Stuttgart Museum a few weeks ago, I was kindly 

 allowed to examine the above-named specimens, with the result that 

 the skull supposed to be a Camel is found to be that of a hornless 

 member of the Giraffidse, agreeing almost exactly in form with horn- 

 less skulls of Samotherium JSoissieri, Maj., but considerably smaller. 

 It is doubtless the female skull of Falceotragus Bouenii, Gaud. 



Breadth of frontals behind the orbits in a Samotherium Boissieri ? ... 240'o mm. 



Breadth of frontals behind the orbits in the Stuttgart skull .. . 187 „ 



Breadth of frontals across the orbits in the Stuttgart skull 161 ,, 



Breadth of frontals across the orbits in Falceotragus Eonenii, according 



to Gaudry 160 „ 



The hornless Camelopardalis parva, Weith., from Pikermi, is the 

 same species as Falceotragus Bouenii. The difference in the shape of 

 the molars is only apparent, the examination of the type- specimen 

 of the latter in the Paris Museum showing that the teeth are not 

 correctly drawn in fig. 2, pi. xlv of the " Animaux fossiles et Geologie 

 de I'Attique." 



The fossil claimed to be a near relative of the Portax is likewise 

 a Giraffoid, intermediate in size between Samotherium Boissieri and 

 Falceotragus Bouenii ; the incorrectly repaired supraorbital horn of 

 the left side is preserved. In size and shape the molars correspond 

 with (1) some isolated teeth doubtfully assigned by Gaudry to his 

 Camelopardalis Attica ; (2) an " isolated upper tooth series " from 

 Maragha (Persia), described by Eodler & Weith ofer ; (3) isolated 

 teeth, also from Maragha, in the British Museum (M. 3,867 and 

 3,869) ; (4) the teeth of the type-specimen of Giraffa vetiista (Wagn.), 

 from Pikermi, if due account is taken of the latter's rather worn 

 condition. The Stuttgart skull shows the characters of Falceotragus 



