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I.—Some Account of a nearly complete Skeleton of Hippopotamus Madagascariensis, Guldb., from Sirabé, Madagascar, obtained in 1895

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. I. Forsyth Major
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The skeletou of a Hippopotamus Madagascariensis, Guldb., in the British Museum (Natural History) has been mounted from materials excavated by myself in the marshes of Sirabé (Central Madagascar) during the year 1895. The skull, lower jaw, several of the vertebræ, and presumably some other bones belong to the same individual.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , May 1902 , pp. 193 - 199
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1902

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page 193 note 1 Guldberg, G. A., “Undersœgelser over en subfossil flodhest fra Madagascar”: Christiania Videnskabsselskabs Forhandlinger, 1883, No. 6, pls. i and ii.Google Scholar

page 193 note 2 Grandidier et Filhol, H., “Observations relatives aux ossements d'Hippopotames trouvés dans le marais d'Ambolisatra à Madagascar”: Aun. Sci. Nat. Zoologie, ser. vii, vol. xvi (1893), pp. 151–190, pls. vii–xv.Google Scholar

page 193 note 3 Major, C. I. Forsyth, “On the general Results of a Zoological Expedition to Madagascar in 1894–96”: Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1896, pp. 976–978.Google Scholar

page 194 note 1 Vol. i (1833), No. 31, p. 479.Google Scholar

page 194 note 2 Comptes R. Ac. Sci. Paris, Dec. 14, 1868, vol. lxvii, p. 1165.Google Scholar

page 195 note 1 Op. cit., p. 977.

page 195 note 2 See the exceptions in my paper, loc. cit., pp. 977, 978; and in Stehlin, Abhandl. Schweiz. Palaeont. Ges., vol. xxvii (1900), p. 434, footnote.Google Scholar

page 196 note 1 Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis, pl. lvii, fig. 1.

page 197 note 1 Grandidier & Filhol, op. cit., p. 160, pl. viii.

page 197 note 2 Op. cit., p. 24.

page 197 note 3 Op. cit., p. 978.

page 197 note 4 Op. cit., pl. xiv; see also p. 187.

page 197 note 5 “Oversigt over Videnskabsselskabets Möder i 1882,” pp. 8–11: Christiania Videnskabsselskabs Forhandlinger, 1882.Google Scholar

page 198 note 1 Abhandl. Schweiz. Palaeont. Ges., 1900, pp. 433, 434.Google Scholar

page 198 note 2 Op. cit., p. 488.

page 198 note 3 Zool. et Pal. Gén., 1867–1869, i, p. 250.Google Scholar

page 198 note 4 The ossiferous breccia at Chrysostomo, near Kythræa (Hagia Marina), in the district of Nicosia, which in Miss Bate's opinion must have originally been a cave, and from which she obtained the bulk of her collection, was, according to the account of the Dutch traveller Corneille le Brun (de Bruyn), well known in former times; the Greek inhabitants regarded and worshipped these Hippopotamus remains as the bones of their saints. (Corneille le Brun, “Voyage au Levant,” etc., Delft, 1700, p. 375.) Le Brun figures (No. 193) a bone which he had worked out with great pains from the breccia, and says it resembles a human radius; but it can clearly be made out to be the femur of the Hippopotamus, represented from the posterior side and in two pieces, the larger fragment being the proximal, the smaller the distal portion.

page 198 note 5 At the meeting of the Zool. Soc. of London, 04 15th, 1902.Google Scholar

page 198 note 6 For this Maltese species, which is intermediate in size between H. Pentlandi and H. minutus, and differs besides from the latter by exhibiting the characteristic trefoil pattern of the molars, I accordingly propose the new specific name of Hippopotamus Melitensis.