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between the eye and base of the ear is thus formed. The 

 ears are pinkish-buff marked by a wide black band covering 

 the lower half of the back. The chin and the upper throat 

 are white. The pelage is short on the dorsal surface, being 

 seven-eighths of an inch in length on the rump. The nape 

 is furnished with a short mane three inches wide extending 

 from the head to behind the shoulders. The midline of 

 the breast and the belly and the whole length of the ven- 

 tral surface of the tail is further furnished by a ruff or short 

 mane of longer fluffy hair. 



In body size and proportions this race is quite identical 

 with the highland race. An adult male from Ulu Station 

 had the following flesh measurements: head and body, 49 

 inches; tail, 30>^ inches; hind foot, 12 inches; ear, 3 inches. 

 Skull length in this specimen is 7>^ inches. Specimens 

 have been examined, from the Kapiti and Athi Plains, at 

 the National Museum. Others are recorded by sportsmen 

 from the flanks of Kilimanjaro, near Taveta, and also on 

 the Upper Tana River southeast of Mount Kenia, north 

 of which point they are known to occur in parts of Somali- 

 land. Cheetahs have been reported from the Rift Valley 

 region of central German East Africa, which are doubtless 

 referable to this race. 



Soudan Cheetah 

 Acinonyx juhatus scemineringii 



Cynailurus scemmeringii Fitzinger, 1855, Sitz.-Ber. Math. nat. cl. d. K. 

 akad. Wiss., XVI, hft. 2, p. 245. 



Range. — Lowlands of the Nile Valley, from the Albert 

 Nyanza northward to Kordofan and westward to Lake 

 Chad and northern Nigeria. 



The German naturalist Fitzinger, in 1855, described the 

 Soudan cheetah from a specimen secured on the Bajuda 

 Plains, Kordofan, naming it for the noted physiologist 

 Samuel Thomas von Soemmering, of Frankfort-on-the- 

 Main. The race may be recognized by the small size of the 

 black spots, which do not exceed a half inch in diameter, 

 and are widely separated by the ochraceous ground-color and 

 the absence of spots on the hind feet. A specimen from the 



