MAMMALS OF ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN — SETZER 561 



postorbital width 30.0; least interorbital width 17.7; length of P* 12.2. 



Remarks: The specimens here referred to the subspecies libyca 

 were referred to ocreata by Allen (1939). However, Pocock (1951) 

 restricted ocreata to Abyssinia and referred the northern and eastern 

 Sudanese specimens to libyca. It is true that the small cats from 

 Abyssinia are darker in color than the specimens from the Red Sea 

 coast and from near the Nile. These latter specimens, though, are 

 virtually indistinguishable, both in color and cranially, from animals 

 from Tunisia. I am therefore following Pocock (1951) in assigning 

 the northeastern Sudanese specimens to the nominate race. 



The two subspecies named by Pocock (1944, p. 68), lynesi and lowei, 

 are in no measure different than animals assigned to the nominate 

 race. The type of lynesi is a young adult with the characteristic bright 

 colors of animals of like age from the range of libyca. The type of 

 lowei is, so far as I can tell, identical with the specimen from Shendy 

 which has been referred to libyca. 



I feel that it is better to express lynesi and lowei as synonyms of 

 libyca until such time as more material has been made available and 

 the degree of variation has been completely worked out. 



Felis libyca ugandae Schwann 



Figure 9,& 



Felis ocreata ugandae Schwann, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 13, p. 424, 

 June, 1904. (Mulema, Uganda.) 



Specimens Examined : Two, both in BM, from: Juba, 1 ; Shubhikra, 

 north of Omdurman, 1. '^f, - ."* 



Measurements: An adult male from Juba measures as follows: 

 Length of head and body 556; length of tail 365; length of hmd foot 

 139; length of ear 56; greatest length of skull 103.0; condyloincisive 

 length 93.1; greatest width across zygomatic arches 72.3; least post- 

 orbital width 30.7; least interorbital width 19.0; length of P" 11.2. 



Remarks: These two specimens agree in color with animals from 

 Uganda in that they are much darker than specimens from farther 

 east and north. 



Felis serval phillipsi G. M. Allen 



Felis capensis phillipsi G. M. Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 58, p. 337, 

 July 1914. (El Garef, Blue Nile.) 



Specimens Examined: Ten, from: White Nile, 1 (BM) ; Khartoum, 

 1 (BM) ; Nagichot, 1 (BM) ; Bahr-el-Ghazal, 1 (BM) ; near Juba, 1 

 (BM); Kulme, Wadi Aribo, 1 (BM); El Garef, 1 (MCZ); Torit, 1; 

 Terangole, 20 miles east of Torit, 2 (1 MCZ). 



Measurements: The type, an adult male, measures as follows: 

 Length of head and body 792; length of tail 290; length of hind foot 



