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ear 63 mm. These do not quite agree with those of Schwann's 

 type, but are somewhat larger except the length of head 

 and body- The colour is, however, similar to the description 

 by the author quoted, and still more to the notes by Pocock ^ 

 on a cat caught north of Fort Hall (kept in the Zool. 

 Garden in London), and referred to F. o. ugandce. The up- 

 per carnassial of the present specimen is larger than in the 

 type, its oiiter length being 12,6 mm. (against 11 mm. in 

 the type). It would appear from this that the cats of this 

 race are somewhat larger further east than in Uganda. Such 

 a hypothese is, however, in contrast to the opinion of Hel- 

 ler. This author has created a new subspecies which he 

 has named F. o. taitce,'^ the type being from Voi, Brit. East 

 Africa. Geographically the cat from Donya Sabuk ought to 

 belong to this subspecies, if it really is distinct from F. o. 

 ugandce about which I am not convinced. Heller says that 

 his F. o. taitce shall differ from F. o. ugandce »by its deci- 

 dedly lighter coloration and smaller body size». With regard 

 to the latter character it must be remarked that Heller^s 

 type specimem is a female and perhaps a rather small spe- 

 cimen. And with regard to the colour Schwann has stated 

 that the female of F. o. ugandce is lighter than the male. 

 To return to the question about the size it has already 

 been remarked that the carnassial of the present specimen 

 from Donya Sabuk is larger than that of F. o. ugandce, Un- 

 fortunately the skull of this specimen is broken behind so 

 that several dimensions cannot be stated, but those recorded 

 below indicate a rather large size. 



Zygomatic width about 72 mm. 



Interorbital » 18 » 



Length of palate to tip of premaxillary 39 » 



Breadth of mesopterygoid fossa 13,5 » 



Length of nasals 27,4 » 



These measurements are subequal to, or larger than 

 those of the male F. o. ugandce., and, of course, still larger 

 than those of the female type of F. o. taitce. It appears 

 thus rather doubtful whether British East Africa is inhabit- 

 ed by a smaller subspecies of Wild Cat different from that 

 of Uganda. 



* Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907. 



* Smithson. Misc. Coll. Vol. 61, n:o 13. 



