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others of bush-pigs. Specimens of the latter animals I 

 greatly desired to add to the collection of mammals I was 

 making, and steel traps were accordingly set that night at 

 the spring in the hopes of catching some of the pigs. Upon 

 approaching the spot in the morning, we heard the growls 

 of a lion and finally made him out in the brush. He was 

 caught by a toe of his forepaw in one of the traps, but all 

 we could see of him was his head through an opening in the 

 bushes. I shot him at twenty yards. He proved to be full 

 grown, but not yet fully mature. The tracks about the 

 spring showed that his two companions had been to the 

 water with him. They, however, never again returned dur- 

 ing the fortnight we remained there. A single instance of 

 capture by trapping was sufficient to cause these cautious 

 animals to avoid the locality and seek other water several 

 miles away." 



Key to the Races of leo 



Body color buffy or olive-bufF; mane long-haired, yellow, black usually 

 only at tips on shoulders or along midline of nape; teeth 

 larger; female tawny, sides of belly and inside of legs 

 marked by pale, indefinite darker spots massaica 



Body color of male tawny or ochraceous; mane short-haired, tawny, black 

 or dark only on shoulders and nape; teeth smaller 



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East African Lion 

 Felis leo massaica 



Native Names: Swahili, simba; Kikamba, mwenyamho ; Kikuyu, ngatia; 

 Masai, ol ngatuny. 



Felis leo massaicus Neumann, 1900, Zool. Jahrb., XIII, p. 550. 



Range. — The whole of British East Africa northward 

 through the Uganda highlands east of the Nile and the 



