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in interorbital width may be due to the same cause. Otherwise the measurements of 

 these two specimens agree very well inter se and with those of SCHILLINGS' specimens. 

 The shape of the occipital surface is the same in all. The distance between lamince ptery- 

 (joidece is distinctly greater than that between the bullce anteriorly. This I take to be an 

 important character which is shared by a male specimen shot by SCHILLINGS, as well, 

 but in opposition to the condition found in the type of NEUMANN'S massaicus where 

 the distances between the bullce and the lamince pterygoidece are about equal. In all 

 SCHILLINGS quoted specimens, as well as in SJOSTEDT'S, the foramen magnum is very high 

 compared with its breadth while in NEUMANN'S massaicus it is transversally extended 

 so that it is seems very broad to its height. If all these cranial characteristics are taken 

 together I think that it might be concluded that all these 5 specimens the cranial measure- 

 ments of which have been recorded above, belong to one and the same race, in spite of 

 the colour differences between SJOSTEDT'S specimens, and that this race is different 

 from NEUMANN'S Massai lion. The area of distribution of this lion is, no doubt, on the 

 northern side of Kilimandjaro, although the sick specimen killed at Kibonoto had strayed 

 away a little just as the red Hyaena described above. 



The Kilimandjaro lion is not identical with NOACK'S somaliensis and it may there- 

 fore be the best way to give a separate subspecific name to it indicating its geographic 

 origin and I then propose the name sahakiensis. 



The lions were, according to SJOSTEDT, very numerous on the northwestern side 

 of Kilimandjaro especially at Leitokitok and Gasorai. When a giraffe bull was killed 

 there 2R / S 1906 a great number of lions collected round the camp near which the skinned 

 body lay on the steppe. SJOSTEDT himself saw the shining eyes of half a score of lions 

 and the natives stated that there were as many on the other side of the camp. The 

 night was very dark so that only one specimen could be killed when it passed through 

 the light area of a small lantern hanging on a Massai spear at the dead body of the giraffe. 

 The killed specimen had its ventricle filled with large pieces of meat and skin of a zebra. 

 The plentiful supply of game (antelopes, gazelles, zebras) in this district explains the 

 fact that the lions did not actually attack the men in the camp, although they tore down 

 and devoured the meat of the giraffe which the natives had cut in long strips and hung 

 on a small acacia. The negroes themselves lay sleeping under the same tree and were 

 roused by the lions jumping for the meat hanging on the branches. They rushed, of 

 course, in a great hurry, and very scared, to the camp but none was hurt. 



Felis pardns nimr (HEMPR. & EHRENB.). 



Felis (Leopardus) nimr EHRBG., MATSCHIE Saugethiere Ost-Afrikas p. 69. 



Kilimandjaro: 1 specimen from Leitokitok 29 /5 1906 and another from Kibonoto. 



The Leopard is according to SJOSTEDT common in the surroundings of the moun- 

 tains especially among the acacia forests at Ngare na nyuki and Leitokitok. Although 

 it prefers the steppe with its herds of gazelles and other game, it is also found in the culti- 

 vated zone, according to the natives, where it used to eat the corpses of the Wadschaggas 

 which at Kibonoto were not buried but laid oiit in the bush. 



