THE LEOPARD AND THE CHEETAH 239 



The Ruwenzori leopard is based on a specimen obtained 

 by the expedition to Ruwenzori, led by the Duke of the 

 Abruzzi, in 1906. The specimen was secured at a high 

 altitude, eleven thousand five hundred feet, and doubtless 

 represents a mountain race confined to the higher parts of 

 Kenia and the Ruwenzori Range. The photograph of the 

 mounted specimen published in the scientific results of the 

 Abruzzi expedition shows a large spotted type of coloration, 

 the dorsal rosettes being separated by narrow reticulations of 

 light color and having the central or eye portion of the spot 

 small, the black ring being much wider than in the East 

 African race, causing the black color to predominate. The 

 tail is chiefly black with a few light reticulations on the 

 basal part. The man-eating specimen already referred to 

 from the Kenia forest at Meru, and now mounted in the 

 National Museum, resembles ruzvenzorii more closely than 

 any other specimen in the collection. It shows strong 

 evidence of the same large spots and reticulated ground- 

 color, but the eyes of the rosettes have the appearance of 

 being larger than in ruzvenzorii, giving a less blackish tone 

 to the general color. The two specimens have the same 

 bodily size, judging by the skulls which are quite identical 

 in dimensions. The similarity in coloration is due doubt- 

 less to the similarity in environment, both being forest- 

 dwelling mountain inhabitants. 



Nile Leopard 



Felis pardus chui 



Native Names: Bari, koka; Acholi, kwat; Aluru, kzvats. 



Felis pardus chui Heller, 1913, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 19, p. 6. 



Range. — Lowlands of the Nile from the Albert Nyanza 

 northward to the Sobat and Bahr-el-Ghazal River systems; 

 limits of range unknown. 



The Nile leopard is distinguishable from the East 

 African by the fewer number of spots, the wider inter- 

 spaces between them, the greater extension of the white 

 ground-color of the under-parts to the upper surface of the 

 hind feet, and the ventral surface of the tip of the tail, the 

 larger body size, and larger skull. There is a tendency in 



