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tude on Kenia and the Aberdare Range, ascending to the 

 alpine meadows which he at 10,000 to 13,000 feet. The 

 tracks were not infrequently seen at such altitudes, which 

 would indicate the residence of the animal and not merely 

 its occasional straying into the alpine region. Such resident 

 mountain-dwelling individuals had best perhaps be referred 

 to the next race rather than to this plains-and-bush animal. 

 The flesh measurements of the largest male specimen, 

 one obtained at Lake Naivasha by Heller, were: head and 

 body, 50 inches; tail, 35 inches; hind foot, io>^ inches; 

 ear, 3^ inches. The skull of this specimen measured ()% 

 inches in greatest length by SiV inches in greatest, or zygo- 

 matic, breadth. A man-eating male leopard caught at Meru 

 Station on the northern slopes of Mount Kenia agreed very 

 closely in size with this specimen, being but little less in 

 dimensions. The large carnassial cheek teeth, which per- 

 form most of the work of cutting up the food before swal- 

 lowing, were decayed and their crowns broken down to the 

 level of the gums in this specimen, which may have had 

 some influence on his abnormal habits. Adult males, as a 

 rule, vary little in size, but the females show much greater 

 size variation. The female specimen shot by Kermit 

 Roosevelt at Juja Farm, which showed such ferocity and 

 attacked him without hesitation when wounded, has the 

 smallest skull of any specimen and was really diminutive 

 in body size, the skull being lyi inches less in length than 

 the largest female specimen. The flesh measurements of 

 this female were: head and body, 39^^ inches; tail, 28^^ 

 inches; hind foot, 8^ inches; ear, 2^ inches. A large 

 female from the Uasin Gishu Plateau is much larger, and 

 measured in the flesh: head and body, 48 inches; tail, 33 

 inches; hind foot, 9 inches; and ear, 3 inches. 



Forest Leopard 



Felis pardus ruwenzorii 



Native Name: Luganda, engo. 



Felis pardus ruwenzorii Camerano, 1906, Boll. Mus. Zool., Torino, XVI, 

 No. 343, p. I. 



Range. — Ruwenzori and Mount Kenia forest region, 

 ascending to high altitudes; limits of range not known. 



