RESUME OF EECENT SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS 

 BEABING ON SOUTH AFEICA, FEOM JANUAEY 1, 

 1897, TO JUNE 30, 1898. 



ZOOLOGY. 



MAMMALIA. 



Major, C. I. Forsyth. " On the Species of Potamoclioerns, the 

 Bush Pigs of the Ethiopian Eegion." Proe. Zool. Soc, 1897, 

 p. 359, plates xxv., xxvi., woodcuts 1-4. 



A revision of the nomenclature and of the classification of 

 Bush Pigs. Five species are recognised— 



1. P. larvatus (F. Cuv.) [ = P. cdwavdsii] from Madagascar. 



2. P. choeropotamus (Desmoul.) [ = P. africanus] from South 



and South-East Africa, with two geographical sub- 

 species : P. c. nyassae from Nyassaland, and P. c. 

 daemonis from Kilimanjaro. 



3. P. johnstoni, sp. nov., from North-West Nyassaland. 



4. P. hassama (Heuglin) from Abyssinia. 



5. P. porcus (Linn.) from West Africa. 



The only South African species affected is therefore that 

 known formerly as P. africanus, which becomes P. choeropotamus , 

 commonly known as the Bosch Vark in the Colony. 



de Winton, W. E. " Eemarks on the Existing Forms of Giraffe." 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1897, p. 273. 



In this paper Mr. de Winton shows that the northern and 

 southern forms of Giraffe must be distinguished as two distinct 

 species ; after giving the literary history of the nomenclature of 

 the two forms, he decides that the northern form must be called 

 Giraffa camelopardalis of Linnaeus, the southern form Giraffa 

 capensis of Lesson. The northern form is distinguished by its 



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