LEOPARDS AND CHEETAHS 



larger specimens than these have been recorded. One, re- 

 cently shot in German East Africa, was almost nine feet 

 long, measured in the same manner. 



As the hunting leopards cannot be classed among the 

 animals which are very destructive or dangerous to natives 

 and settlers, they are put on the " protected list," and the 

 hunter is allowed to kill only two cheetahs on the ordinary 

 sportsman's license, which is now in force in British East 

 Africa. 



