1904.] ON" A NEW SPECIES OF FRUIT-BAT FROM FERNANDO PO. 371 



March 1, 1904. 

 Dr. A. GiJNTHER, F.R.S,, Yice-President, in the Chau\ 



The following motion, of which notice had been given at the 

 Meeting held on February 16th, was put to tlie Meeting by 

 Mr. R. I. Pocock, seconded by Mr, R. H. Burne, and declared to 

 be lost by a very large majority : — 



" That it is desirable to alter the hour of the Meetings for 

 Scientific Business from 8.30 p.m. to 5 p.m." 



Dr. A. Giinther, F.R.S., exhibited and made remarks upon 

 some specimens of hybrids between Reeves' Pheasant [Phasianus 

 7'eevesi) S and the Silver Pheasant {Gennceus nycthemerus) $ . 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas exhibited the skull of a Buffalo which, 

 with' several others, had been obtained in Ankole, S.W. Uganda, 

 during Col. Delme-Radcliffe's delimitation of the Anglo-German 

 Boundary. 



The horns of this buffalo were remarkably broad and flat in 

 the palm, and their bases diverged considerably from each other 

 in front, conti-asting in these respects with those of the true 

 Bubalus caffer of South Africa, which were very convex on the 

 palm, while their inner edges (close to each other in old bulls) 

 were quite parallel. 



The animal was of considerable size, the skull of the type- 

 specimen measuring 505 mm. in basal length, while its horns 

 were 1106 mm. (= 43| in.) between the most distal points of 

 their outer convexity, and 295 mm. (=11^ in.) across the palm 

 iir a straight line, measured with callipers. 



An old female skull was 455 mm. in basal length, with a 

 greatest horn-spread of 842 mm., the palms being 141 mm. broad. 



All the specimens sent were closely similar, and Mr. Thomas 

 thought that a subspecific name should be given to the animal, 

 which represented a nor-thern race of B. caffer, f^^Hj as large as 

 the latter, but tending in the flatness of its horns towards the 

 smaller Bubahis cequinoctialis Blyth, of the Upper Nile. 



Mr. Thomas therefore suggested for it the name of Buhalus 

 ca:ffer radcliffei (cf. Abstr. P. Z. S. 1904, No, 4, p. 13, March 8) 

 in honour of its donor. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas also exhibited a Fruit-Bat which had 

 been obtained by the expedition to Fernando Po subsidised by 

 the Duke of Bedford and Mi-s. Percy Sladen. 



This Bat belonged to the rare genus Scotonycteris, but did not 

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