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FELIS PAROUS SUAHELICA Neumann. 



Plate 5. 



1900. Felis leopardus suahelicus Neumann, Zool. Jahrb., Sygt., vol. 13, p. 551. 

 ("East Africa"; specimens mentioned from Tanga, Manyara Lake, Nai, 

 and Usandawe, German East Africa, and from Loita Hills, British East 

 Africa; and "Uganda." Type locality may be restricted to some point 

 in northeastern German East Africa; cotypes [?] in Berlin Museum.) 



1910. Felis pardus suahelica Roosevelt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 476; 

 London ed., p. 487. 



1914. Felis pardus suahelica Roosevelt and Heller, Life-Hist. African Game 

 Anim., vol. 1, p. 236. 



1914. Felis pardus ruwenzorii Roosevelt and Heller, Life-Hist. African Game 

 Anim., vol. 1, p. 238. (Part, specimen from Meru; not of Camerano.) 



Specimens. — Tv/enty-four, from the following localities: 



Somaliland: "Somaliland," 2 (Cunningham). 



Abyssinia: Adis Ababa, 1 skin (Philip). 



British East Africa: Juja Farm, 1 (K. Roosevelt); Kabalolot 

 Hill, Sotik, 1 (Heller); Kamiti Farm, Athi Plains, 2 (Mearns); 

 Kampi Moto, 20 miles north of Nakuru, 1 (K. Roosevelt); Kapiti 

 Station, 1 (Ramey); Kisii District, 4 odd skulls (Loring); Lake 

 Naivasha, 2 (Heller, Mearns); Meru, 1 (Heller); Rumathe River, 

 Northern Guaso Nyiro, 1 (Heller) ; Ulu Station, 6 (Rainey, Heller) ; 

 Voi, 1 skin (Heller). 



The two specimens from ''Somahland" died in the National 

 Zoological Park in Washington; the skull of the adult male shows 

 all the characteristic features of a zoo-reared cat, as described under 

 Felis leo massaica. These specimens are of little use for systematic 

 purposes; the exact point of capture is imknown. They do not vary 

 enough from ordinary sldns of Felis 'pardus sauhelica in size or mark- 

 ings to excite suspicion that they might represent a distinct race, 

 and the skull of the male is fully as large as in suahelica. It is 

 quite evident that these specimens do not represent the Felis pardus 

 na-nopardus of Thomas,^ described from forty miles west of Gorahai. 

 The skin from Adis Ababa, Abyssinia, is a fine example of the ' ' black 

 leopard. The markings are plamly traceable, however, and from the 

 size of the spots the form represented is not the Felis pardus pardus 

 which occurs at Khartoum, but rather F. p. suahelica. Unfortu- 

 nately, the specimen is without a skull. 



The series of skins and skulls from various parts of British East 

 Africa, except for a few individual specimens, is a very uniform lot 

 m color and size. The two skulls and one skin from Naivasha are 

 somewhat larger than others in the series from southern and central 

 British East Africa and are approaching m this character Felis pardus 

 chui of the Upper Nile Valley. In color the skin is typical of sua- 

 helica and shows no indication of gradation toward chui, as does the 



I Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 14, p. 94. July, 1904. 



