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Genus FELIS Linnaeus. 



1758. FrHs T.inx.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 41. {F. catus.) 

 1816. Panthera Oken, Lehrb. Nat., 3ter Theil, 2te Abth., p. 1052. {F. pardus.) 

 1816. Leo Oken, Lehrb. Nat., 3ter TheU, 2te Abth., p. 1070. {F. leo.) 

 1855. CaluH FrrziNGER, Wiss.-pop. Nat. Siiug., voL 1, p. 265. {F. catus.) 

 1858. Catolynx Severtzow, Rev. Mag. ZooL, Paris, ser. 2, voL 10, p. 385. Sep- 

 tember. {F. silvestris^F. catus Authors.) 

 1858. Leptmlurus Severtzow, Rev. Mag. ZooL, Paris, ser. 2, voL 10, p. 389. 



September. (F. serval.) 

 1864. Scrvnl Brehm, Fiihrer ZooL Garten Hamburg. Sechste Auflage, p. 53. 



(Serval maculatus from Algeria.) 

 1866. Galeopardus Fitzinger, Sitz.-ber. Math.-Nat. Kais. Akad. Wiss., Wien, 



voL 54, p. 557. {F. serval.) 

 1894. Leonina Greve, Nov. Act. Acad. Cses. Leop., voL 63, p. 60. {F. leo.) 

 1894. Se)-valina Greve, Nov. Act. Acad. Cses. Leop., voL 63, p. 76. (F. serval.) 



Four groups of cats of the genus Felis are included in our East 

 African collections. These are the lions, leopards, servals, and the 

 small wild cats. The larger species, the lion and the leopard, are 

 much better represented in the collection than are the smaller serval 

 and the much smaller wild cat. The four groups have been consid- 

 ered by various authors as distmct genera, but until a carefully- 

 worked out monograph of the superspecific groups of cats appears 

 it seems of little use to separate them.^ The African wild cat is very 

 closely related to the wild cat of Europe, and is generally believed to 

 be the ancestral species of the common domestic cat. 



FELIS LEO MASSAICA Neumann. 



Plates 4, 52, 53, 54, 55. 



1900. Felis leo massaims Neumann, ZooL Jahrb., Syst., vol. 13, p. 550. (Kibaya, 

 German East Africa; type in Berlin Mus.) 



1908. Felis leo subsp. sabakiensis Lonnberg, Sjostedt's Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped. , 

 Mamm., p. 22. (Kibonoto and Leitokitok, German East Africa.) 



1910. Felis leo sabakiensis Hollister, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 2, 

 p. 11. March 31. 



1910. Felis leo massaica Roosevelt, Afr. Game Trails, Amer. ed.,.p. 476; Lon- 

 don ed., p. 487. (Part.) 



1914. Felis leo massaica Roosevelt and Heller, Life-Hist. Afr. Game Anim., 

 vol. 1, p. 222; map, p. 227. (Part.) 



1917. Felis leo massaica Hollister, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol 53, p. 177. June 1. 



Specimens. — Fifty-nine from the following localities: 



British East Africa: Guas Ngishu Plateau, 1 (White); Kapiti 



Station, 24 (Rainey, Lormg, Johnston); Kitanga, 5 (T. Roosevelt, 



Ramey); Laikipia Plateau, 4 (K. Roosevelt); Lakiunda River, 1 



(Heller) ; Marsabit Road, 1 (Heller) ;' Mount Kilimanjaro, north- 



i Since this page has been in type a paper on The Classiflcation of Existing Felidte, by R. I. Pocock, 

 has appeared in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 8, vol. 20, pp. 32&-350, November, 

 1917. According to Mr. Pocock, the lion and leopard belong to the genus Panthera; the serval to the 

 genus Leptailunis; and the small wild cats, together with the domestic species, to the restricted genus 

 Felis. 



