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SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 2. 



Cynselurns guttatns HERMANN. 



Cyncelurus guttatns HERM., MATSCHIE Saugethiere Ost-Afrikas p. 70. 



1 young specimen from Sigillari, the steppe between Meru and Kilimandjaro, 

 June 1906. 



This species is not common according to SJOSTEDT. A specimen kept alive by 

 a farmer was said to have been caught on the steppe between Kilimandjaro and Meru. 



Felis leo subsp. satiakiensis n. 



(PI. 3 fig. 4). 



Kilimandjaro: 1 ? killed by the natives at Kibonoto in the cultivated zone, 1,500 

 m. above the sea, 31 /s 1905 -- 1 ? shot by Prof. SJOSTEDT in the plains NW. of Kiliman- 

 djaro, Leitokitok, 2li /5 1906. (Diameter of eye 28 mm. Iris yellow. ) 



These two lions are very different in colour. The first is much darker and migh 

 be termed yellowish brown, in some lights almost rufous with black tips to the hair. 

 The lower side is yellowish white with numerous round, pale rufous spots. This speci- 

 men was sick when shot and had probably in consequence of this left its regular haunts 

 in the plains. 



The other specimen is sandy grey, becoming more yellowish on the flanks, white 

 beneath without any spots. 



The dimensions of the skull of these two female Lions are: 



spec. 

 243 mm. 



Basilar length .'.... 



Zygomatic breadth 195 



Interorbital 55 



Least postorbital width 60 



Distance between tips an either side of mesial 



palatal notch 8,5 



Breadth ol palatal opening just, behind the sittum 



palatopterygoidea 33, a 



Distance between bullce in front 28 



tips of postorbital processes . 88 



Length of upper carnassial 34 



Breadth of squama occipitalis abbove the condyli 74 



at basal third . . 60 



second * . . 40 



Height 65 



Grey spec 



258 mm. 

 215 

 62 



57 



13, r, > 



37 



28 



103 



32 



70 

 60 



40 

 62 



"Reddish 5 specimens killed by SCHIL- 

 LINGS (R. Zoo]. MUB., Berlin) 



255 mm. 240 mm. 260 mm. 



196 191 205 



63 63 63 



61,5 56,5 59 



37 

 26 

 92 

 37 

 76 

 61 

 50 

 62 



35 

 26 

 92 

 33 

 72 

 58 

 43 

 57 



41 

 29 

 96 

 36 

 72 

 61 

 47 

 63 



At the side of these measurements of the skulls of Prof. SJOSTEDTS female lions 

 are put some measurements of three skulls of female lions shot by SCHILLINGS and now 

 kept in the R. Zool. Museum in Berlin where I have had the opportunity of measuring 

 them, thanks to the coiirtesy of Professor MATSCHIE. SCHILLINGS' lions were of a red- 

 dish type. The grey and reddish lions in SJOSTEDTS collections are, as may be seen, 

 a little different. The differences in width between the postorbital processes is of less 

 account as the specimen from Kibonoto was younger and weaker. The differences 



