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Bescriytion. — General color of the dorsal surfaces "buff" (of 

 Ridgway, 1886), a shade deeper along the middorsal line. On the 

 forehead, cheeks, and feet are a few small black spots as usual in the 

 servals. The nape is marked by the usual two pairs of black stripes, 

 the outer of which is the broader (about 10 mm.) and runs from the 

 inner base of the ear for about four fifths of the length of the neck 

 beyond which point it breaks into a series of black spots. The inner 

 pair is similar but one half as broad. On the shoulders all the stripes 

 commonly present in the usual served pattern are broken into elongated 

 spots, the largest of which are some 50 mm. long by 10 wide. From 

 the shoulders to the rump the body is uniformly spotted, without 

 any semblance of a stripe posterior to the shoulders. These spots are 

 arranged in more or less definite longitudinal rows, some fifteen in 

 number at the middle region, and average about 10 to 15 mm. in 

 diameter. The ear, as usual, is black on the terminal half with a 

 whitish cross stripe which in the type extends practically across to the 

 inner border. On the fore legs, a black band crosses the dorsal side 

 below the elbow; while on their ventral surface there are two broad 

 black bands. The ventral surface of the body and inside of the legs, 

 chin, and upper throat are white except for the black markings. The 

 lower throat is pale buff. A narrow black band crosses the throat 

 between the angles of the jaws and a second about half the length of 

 the throat. The tail is colored buff with seven black rings, the more 

 basal of which are not quite complete ventrally; the tip is included 

 within the seventh ring. 



Measurements. — The measurements of the fresh specimen are: — 

 head and body 792 mm., tail 290, hind foot 185, ear from meatus 90. 

 Weight 21 pounds. The tail seems unusually short in this race, about 

 36% of the head-and-body length, against 46% in hindci and 43% in 

 kempi its nearest neighbors geographically. Skull. — Basal length 102 

 mm., palatal length 46, zygomatic breadth 78.5, interorbital constric- 

 tion 22, mastoid width 46, upper cheek teeth (front of canine to back of 

 molar) 38, lower cheek teeth (front of canine to back of sectorial) 42, 

 width outside upper molars 45.5. 



Remarks. — ^NvonghioYi (1910, p. 205) has shown that the name 

 Felis serval, based on an Asiatic cat, if not unidentifiable, is at least 

 untenable for an African species. He proposes to ignore the name in a 

 technical sense, and adopts in its stead Felis capensis of Forster (1781) 

 based on the serval of the Cape of Good Hope. He recognizes as valid 

 races, F. c. galeopardus of Senegal and F. c. togoensis of Togoland and 

 describes three new forms:— F. c. hindei, type locality, Machakos, 



