456 DR. C. I. FORSYTH MAJOR ON [-^P^'- ^^t 



452 mm.; basal length 410; length of horns on anterior curve 

 487 ; basal circumference 273. 



Sab. (of type). Maanja River, abovit 30 miles west of Kampala, 

 towards tlie Albert Lake, Uganda. 



T2/2)e. Old Male. Mounted head and skin of body. B. M. 

 No. 4.4.19.1. Presented by Mr. F. J. Jackson. Killed March 

 1902. 



Mr. Jackson had only seen this one specimen, a solitary male, 

 which had possibly wandered out of the normal habitat of its 

 kind. The typical locality of B. jacTcsoni was Northern Kavirondo, 

 but the exact limits of its i-ange were not as yet known, nor the 

 extent to which it graded into the B. lehvel of the Upper Nile. 



The markings of the present specimen were so striking, and so 

 entirely unmatched within the genus, that, in spite of the nearness 

 of its habitat to that of the true jacksoni, Mr. Thomas thought 

 there was no alternative but to give it a distinctive name. 



Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major, F.Z.S., exhibited some remains of 

 Anthracotheriuin inagnum Cuv. (Plate XXIX.), obtained by 

 Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.E..S., from a lignite-deposit in Majorca 

 (Balearic Is.), and made the following remarks : — 



When Ml'. Oldfield Thomas infoi-med me, some years ago, of 

 his intended visit to the Baleai-ic Islands *, I requested him to 

 inquire at the lignite-mines of Majorca after remains of Anthraco- 

 ikerhmn and other mammals, having reasons for supposing that 

 remains of the genus just named had foi-merly been found thei-e. 

 In the Museo Civico of Milan is, or was, pi-eserved a jaw of 

 Anthracotheriutn of the size of A. inagnum, with an undoubtedly 

 wrong label attached to it. The late geologist E. Spreafico, to 

 whom I pointed it out many years ago, thought it to be a specimen 

 brought back by Dr. Cristoforo Bellotti from an excursion to the 

 Balearic Islands, and pi'esented to the Museum, but afterwai-ds 

 believed to have been lost in some unaccountable manner. 



The circumstance, although dating back over thirty years, had 

 not escaped my memory, because I found out afterwards that the 

 lignites in Majorca are generally ascribed to a much older horizon 

 than the one revealed now with certainty by the presence in them 

 of A7ithracothermm magmmi. 



The island of Majorca, the largest of the Balearics, was at one 

 time occupied by an immense lake, the longest diameter of which 

 has been estimated at 80 kilometres, almost equalling that of the 

 whole island (92 kilometres) t. 



About the geological horizon of this lacusti'ine formation, con- 



* See Oldfield Thomas, " On the Mammals of the Balearic Islands," Proc. ZooL 

 Soc. London, 1901, vol. i. pp. 35-44. 



t H. Hennite, " Etudes geologiques siir les iles Baleares," pram, partie, p. 201 

 (1879). 



