TltJi SELOUS COLLECTION-. V 



EASTERN SPOTTED HYiENA. 



Ceocuta ckocuta gekminans. 



Hysena (Crocotta) (jenninans, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Frevinde, 1900, 



p. 26. 

 Hyeena crocuta gertniiiani^, Roosevelt. African Game Trails, Amer. ed., 



p. 473 ; London ed., p. 485, 1910. 

 Crocuta croruta _f/eri((uunis, Roosevelt and Heller. Life-histories of African 



Game Animals, vol. i. p. 261, 1915. 



Distinguished fi-oiu the South African race by its smaller size 

 and rather narrower skull. The colour of the body is extremely 

 variable and the dark spots are very large. 



Typical locality, Lake Rukwa, Tanganyika Territory. This 

 hyaena would appear to be very widely distributed in East Africa, 

 being found throughout the greater part of Kenya Colony and 

 Tanganyika Territory. North of the Northern Gruaso Nyiro and 

 through the Lake lludolf region towards Abyssinia its place is 

 taken by Crocuta crocuta fisi, described by Heller* from the area 

 between the Northern Guaso Njaro and Mount Marsabit. The 

 names Jcibouotensis^ i^angaiiensis, and nzoi/ce must be regarded as 

 synonyms of germinans. 



9 —19. 7. 15. 11 (female). 13 December, 1902. Nairobi, Kenya 

 Colony. 



Family FELIDiE. 

 LION. 



FeLIS LEO. 



Felis leo, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i. p. 41, 1758 ; ed. 12, vol. i. p. 60, 

 1766. 



In " A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa " f Selous gives the 

 following account of the A'ariations met with in the South African 

 Lion: — "All over the interior of South Africa, wherever game still 

 exists in sufficient quantities to furnish them with food, lions are 



* Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ixi. no. 22, p. 5, 1914. 

 t p. 257, 1881. 



