236 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Key to the Races of pardus 



Body size smaller, skull length in males less than 9>^ inches; ground- 

 color on back lighter than cinnamon-brown; rosettes 

 often forming ocellated or completely ringed spots 

 Spots numerous and crowded, the interspaces of light ground- 

 color narrow; ground-color of hind feet ochraceous, 

 like the flanks; ventral surface of tail tip with a 

 narrow whitish stripe 

 Spots smaller on back and more widely separated 



suahelica 



Spots larger on back, the interspaces forming narrow reticu- 

 lations, the predominating color being the black of 

 the rosettes, or ocellations ruwenzorii 



Spots fewer, large and widely separated by the light ground- 

 color which is the predominating color; ground-color 

 of hind feet white; ventral surface of tail with a 

 broad white stripe chut 



Body size larger, skull length exceeding 9^^ inches in males; color- 

 ation dark, ground-color cinnamon-brown, spots on 

 back small and broken, not distinctly ocellated, and 

 with central portion not darker than ground-color 



jortis 



East African Leopard 

 Felis pardus suahelica 



Native Names: Swahili, chui; Kikamba, ngo; Kikuyu, ngari; Masai, 

 0/ owarukeri. 



Felis leopardus suahelicus Neumann, 1900, Zool. Jahrb., XIII, p. 551. 



Range. — British and German East Africa, from the 

 coast districts westward through Uganda to the Edward 

 Nyanza and Lake Kivu, north to Abyssinia and western 

 Somaliland. 



The East African race of the leopard was described in 

 1900 by Herr Oscar Neumann from some flat skins which 

 he obtained in German East Africa during his journey in 

 1893. Unfortunately, however, his description is very 

 meagre, the name referring merely to what he called the 

 large-spotted leopard without being based on any par- 



