178 BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



FEUS OCREATA NAND.^ Heller. 



Plates 48, 49. 



1913. i^eKsocreaianancZ.K Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 13. p. 14. 

 September 16. (Headwaters of the Lukosa River, Nandi Escarpment, 

 British East Africa, 7,000 feet; tyi^e in U. S. Nat. Miis.) 



Specimens. — Four, from localities as follows: 



British East Africa: Kakumega, 3 (Heller): Lukosa River, l 

 (HeUer). 



I have seen no specimens of Felis ocreaia ugandse Schwaini,^ 

 described from Mulema, Uganda, but judging from the description 

 this race must be very much like it. Mr. Heller has compared our 

 material with the type and two additional specimens of ugandBe in 

 the British Museum, however, and states that nandx is darker in 

 color. One adult specimen from the Kakumega lot is very much 

 lighter than the type of nandse, and only slightly darker than certain 

 specimens of Felis ocreata taitse. Tliis coEspicuous variation, makes 

 it highly desirable that larger series of these cats be brought together 

 that the ranges of individual variation and of geographical variation 

 may be studied intelligently. 



The stomach of the type-specimen contained a specimer. of Battus 

 medicatus. 



FELIS OCREATA TAIT.E Heller. 



Plates 50, 51. 

 1913. Felis oa-eata taitse Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 01, No. 13, p. 14. 

 September 16. (Voi, British East Africa; type in U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



Specimens. — Four, as follows : 



British East Africa: Isiola River, 1 (Heller): Juja Farm, 1 

 (Meams); Ulukenia Hills, 1 (Loring); Voi, 1 (Heller). 



The stomach of the Isiola River specimen contained lemains of a 

 Tatera; that of the Voi specimen an Acomys. The Juja Farm 

 specimen was shot by Mr. McMillan and presented b}^ him to Doctor 

 Mearns. In color it is white, buff, and bright oclii'aceous-orange. 

 The pattern is almost precisely that of a wild cat. This specimen 

 may possibly be a mixed wild and domestic cat; but, from all the 

 characters, it seems more probable that it is a partially albino a\ ild 

 cat. The tail rings are distinct and not connected above. 



For measurements of cats of the ocreata group see table, page 179. 



FELIS TORQUATA Cuvier. 



1827. Felis torquata Temminck, Mon. Mamm., vol. 1, p. 255. (Based on Geoffrey 

 and Cuvier, Hist. Mamm., pi. 126 — "Chat du Nepaul.") 



1907. Felis torquata Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1907, p. 151; pi. 9. (Name 

 revived for the "striped" domestic cat.) 



Specimens.- — Two, as follows: 



British East Africa: Changamwe, 1 skull (^learns); Nairobi, 

 1 (Meams). 



» Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 13, p. 424. June, 1904. 



