78 EINAR LONNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 
Thus the big male specimen from Eritrea mentioned above has larger spots than 
the smaller females without, however, directly deserving the name »large-spotted>». 
The large-spotted skins (conf. Fig. 2) sent home by LinpBLom are larger than the 
Fig. 3. A small-spotted Leopard from Brit. East Africa. 
small-spotted ones (Fig. 3). The number of the spots counted transversely at the 
middle of the body appears to be about equal in both. The size of the spots may 
accordingly in East African Leopards stand in connection with the size of the ani- 
mal only and thus be without value as a racial characteristic, 
