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of this race no doubt extends northward over the highlands 

 of Elgon to the latitude of Nimule and westward and south- 

 ward over the higher parts of Uganda and German East 

 Africa. 



Rainey African Cheetah 

 Acinonyx jubatus raineyi 



Native Name: Somali, wer. 



Acinonyx jubatus raineyi Heller, 1913, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 19, 

 p. 9. 



Range, — British and German East Africa from the 

 coast lowlands inland as far as the base of Mount Kenia 

 and the Kikuyu Escarpment, north to Somaliland, and 

 south to central German East Africa. 



The cheetah inhabiting the coast-drainage area has been 

 recently described from a specimen shot by Paul J. Rainey 

 near Ulu Station, Kapiti Plains district, British East Africa. 

 This race is a pale-colored, short-haired form having a light 

 pinkish-buff dorsal ground-color. It may be distinguished 

 from the Soudan race, scemmeringii, by the large size of the 

 dorsal spots and the spotted hind feet. The ground-color 

 is pale pinkish-buff, darkest on midline, where it is ochra- 

 ceous-buff, and paling on the under-parts to cream color. 

 Body marked uniformly by round black spots three- 

 quarters of an inch in diameter, interspaced by occasional 

 small spots or dots. The spots on the legs and belly are 

 elongate in shape and cover the limbs to the toes. The fore- 

 feet are much more conspicuously spotted than the hind, 

 which have the spots small or indistinct near the toes. The 

 toes are much spotted above on a pinkish-buff ground 

 color, but below they are clothed by dusky-drab hair. 

 Tail spotted like the back with the terminal portion marked 

 by five black rings and the extreme tip white. The top of 

 the head and the nape are marked by numerous small 

 black spots, but the snout is uniform ochraceous-buff with- 

 out spots, and is sharply defined on the sides by a black 

 stripe extending from the eye to the mouth just behind the 

 whiskers and thence passing backward to the angle of the 

 mouth. The sides of the head behind the eye and below 

 the ear are marked by a few black spots, but no evident line 



