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Plains and had the following flesh measurements: head 

 and body, "j'j inches; tail, 40 inches; hind foot, 15 inches; 

 ear, 6yi inches; weight, 412 pounds. The average speci- 

 men is somewhat less than these dimensions. An average 

 female specimen measured in the flesh: head and body, 62 

 inches; tail, 38 inches; hind foot, 12^ inches; ear, 4^ 

 inches. 



Uganda Lion 



Felis leo nyanzce 



Native Names: Uganda, empologoma; Bari, kamiru; Unyoro, linani. 

 Felis leo nyanzce Heller, 1913, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 19, p. 4. 



Range. — Uganda and the Nile Valley from the German 

 border northward to the Sobat and the Bahr-el-Ghazal 

 drainages, east as far as Mount Elgon and the western 

 shore of the Victoria Nyanza, and west to the Congo-Nile 

 watershed; limits of range unknown. 



The Uganda race of the lion has been recently described 

 by Heller from a flat skin from Kampala presented to 

 Colonel Roosevelt by the European residents. From the 

 East African lion it may be distinguished by its darker 

 coloration and shorter mane. The dorsal color is tawny 

 and quite identical in tone to that of the Abyssinian, but 

 the mane is light-colored with little or no blackish cast and 

 short-haired. It differs further from the Abyssinian race 

 by its narrow skull, relatively shorter cheek teeth, and 

 narrow mesopterygoid fossa. The Uganda race does not 

 apparently share the close approximation to its West African 

 representative that is exhibited by much of the mammal 

 fauna of the region. The broad-skulled, large-toothed race 

 senegalensis of West Africa is strikingly different from the 

 narrow-skulled, small-toothed nyanzcs. The coloration of 

 the type skin is ochraceous-tawny, vermiculated very slightly 

 with black over the median line of the back. The sides of 

 the body are ochraceous without darker spots and the belly 

 is somewhat lighter, being buffy-ochraceous. The mane is 

 short and does not extend over the shoulders except on the 

 median line of the withers, where it forms a narrow ridge 

 of hair 2 inches wide by 10 inches long. In color the 

 mane is tawny with a seal-brownish patch on the nape and 



