170 BULLETIN 99^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



FELIS PAROUS PAROUS Linnaus. 



1758. Felis pardits Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 41. (Valley of the Nile, 

 Egypt.^) 



Specimens. — Two skins, without skulls, from the following lo- 

 calities : 



Sudan: El Dueim, 1 (Mearns); Khartoum, 1 (Mearns). 



These skins indicate that true pardus is a much more ochraceous- 

 buff colored animal than are the upper Nile or East African forms of 

 the leopard. No skulls of typical pardus are in the collection, and 

 comparison of the specunens is therefore very unsatisfactory. The 

 Khartoum skin is that of an immature animal; the El Dueim speci- 

 men an adult male. 



For measurements of specimens of leopards see tables, pages 172- 

 173. 



FELIS PAROUS CHUI Heller. 



Plates 44, 45. 



1913. Felis pardtis chid Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., a'oI. 61, No. 19, p. 6. 



November 8. (Gondokoro, Uganda; type in U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



1914. Felis pardus chui Roosevelt and Heller, Life-Hiat. African Game Anim., 



vol. 1, p. 239. 



Specimens. — Three, as follows: 



Lado: Rhino Camp, 1 (Heller). 



Uganda: Gondokoro, 7 miles east of, 1 (Heller). 



BiTisH East Africa: Nzoia River, Guas Ngishu Plateau 1 (K. 

 Roosevelt). 



The specimen listed above from the Nzoia River is not typical of 

 Felis pardus chui but seems to belong with this form rather than 

 with sualielica of the region to the east. It is a rather young adult 

 female which shows characters intermediate between the two forms. 

 In size it is considerably larger than any adult female of suahelica, 

 and has a larger skull. The body color and spotting are more like 

 suahelica than like chui, but the feet have the wliite ground color of 

 chui rather than the yellowish-buff of suahelica. The region is just 

 where specimens intermediate between the two forms might be 

 expected to occur, although sualielica is found m the Elgoyo forest 

 only a short distance to the east. Adult male leopards from the 

 Nyanza region are greatly desired to work out the interrelations of 

 the two forms. As noted under Felis pardus suahelica, specimens 

 of that form from the Naivasha Lake country are larger than those 

 from farther east, and are approaching in that character, but with- 

 out change in color, the form from the Upper Nile. 



The old male from Rhino Camp, Lado, measured 725 millimeters 

 high at shoulder; the female from Guas Ngishu Plateau, 670. 



• Cabrera, Bol. Real. Soc. espaiiola Hist. Nat., 1910, p. 425, November; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lon- 

 don, 1911, p. 135, March. 



