80 EINAR LONNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 
my material, however, it will appear as if the big large-spotted skins had a com- 
paratively short tail independent of from which locality they have originated. Thus 
if the tail is laid forward along the middle of the back it reaches with the tip to 
above the shoulders as well in the big and comparatively large-spotted skin from 
Eritrea as in the two big and large-spotted skins from British East Africa. On the 
other hand in the smaller and small-spotted skins the tail is, as a rule, longer and 
when laid as above it reaches usually further forward with the tip to the middle of 
the upper neck, but there are exceptions from this rule so that in some small-spotted 
specimens as well the tail is comparatively short. 
From this discussion it is apparent that the question about eventually two 
races of Leopards in British East Africa cannot be solved for the present. More 
material is needed and especially material with indication of sex and age. It is of 
course then also impossible to say now which subspecific name ought to be applied 
to this or these Leopards. 
The small Leopard of Somaliland has been called F. p. nanopardus by Tuomas.’ 
The flat skin of the type specimen, an old female, is only 1070 mm. and none of 
my skins is so small, nor is there any with so short tail as 580 mm. as that of the 
female nanopardus. 
I wish at this opportunity to draw attention to the fact that it is very easy to 
“ _.q-—. ascertain whether the tail of a Leopard is complete or 
= Zoe intact at the tip, because every such tail is provided with 
) a spur or nail at the extreme end, homologous with that at 
ie eee pore res the end of a Lions tail about which so much has been spoken 
@ dorsal view; > from the right (conf, Fig. 4 a & b). 
side. Three times enlarged. 
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Felis capensis hindei Wroucuton. 
Wroventon: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, Vol. V, p. 205. 
A specimen from the bush steppe near Thika river and not far from Blue Post 
appears to agree with Wrovuauton’s description of this race of Serval. The present 
specimen is, however, a little longer, head and body measuring about 84 cm, and its 
tail is somewhat shorter, about 26 cm. without hair. But as it is a female its skull 
is not large, and the measurements of the same agree with those recorded by 
WROUGHTON. 
1 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1904, Ser. 7, Vol. XIV, p. 94. 
