EAST AFRICAN MAMMAX,S IN NATIONAL MUSEUJM. 175 



The specimen from Kabalolot Hill is mentioned in Heller's journal 

 of the Rainey Expedition as follows: 



Found a tree in which a leopard had hung up a fresh kill of a topi. This tree 

 was one of the prickly pear fruited trees, with many twisted trunks at its base, 

 so that it was not difficult for the leopard to get a good foothold in climbing it. The 

 topi was an adult one and placed about 10 feet above the ground. I set five traps 

 at the base of the tree and caught the leopard during the night. 



FELIS FORTIS Heller. 



Plates 46, 47. 



1913. Felis pardusfortisB.EijLER, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 19, p. 5. 



November 8. (Aggate's Ranch, Loita Plains, British East Africa; type 

 inU. S.Nat. Mus.) 



1914. Felis pardusfortis Roosevelt and Heller, Life-Hist. African Game Anim., 



vol. 1, p. 241. 



Specimen. — One, the type, from — 



British East British: Loita Plains (Rainey). 



The unique type-specimen of this leopard was killed b}^ a rancher 

 in the Loita Plains bush country bordering his farm and was pur- 

 chased from him for the United States National Museum by Paul J. 

 Raine}'^ May 31, 1911. In size, color, skull, and dental characters 

 this specimen differs widely from all other leopards in the collection. 

 A case of very exceptional individual variation is here represented or 

 else the animal belongs to a species quite distinct from the common 

 leopard which is found in all the surrounding country. 



The absence of the small upper premolar as described in the 

 original diagnosis is, of course, of no importance as a racial character. 

 As a matter of fact this tooth is present on both sides, can be observed 

 Avithout a glass, and under slight magnification can be seen to have 

 incompletely erupted. The second upper premolar (pm^) is especially 

 peculiar; but the loss, apparently'- in early life, of the last lower pre- 

 molar, leaving the upper tooth virtually functionless, makes any 

 speculation on the differences as based on this single example of no 

 real value. 



FELIS CAPENSIS HINDEI Wroughton. 



1910. Felis capensis hindei Wroughton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 5, 

 p. 205. February. (Machakos, British East Africa; type in British 

 Museum.) 



1910. Felis capensis hindei Roosevelt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 47G; 

 London ed., p. 487. 



Specimens. — Eight, from localities as follows : 

 Lado: Rhino Camp, 1 skull (Mearns). 

 Uganda: Gondokoro, 1 (Heller). 



