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case (across squamosal region) 13 ; interorbital constriction 4 ; 

 greatest length of nasals 10 ; palatal length 10*5 ; palatilar 

 length 8 ; length of upper molar series 3*5. 



Hob. South face of Mount Elgon, British East Africa. 

 Altitude 9000 feet. 



Type. Adult female. Rudd Collection. Original number 

 442. Collected by Mr. R. Kemp on November 16th, 1909. 



The series of Elgon specimens are so much darker in colour 

 than the Tanganyika species that it is necessary to consider 

 them as representing a distinct geographical race and de- 

 serving of subspecific rank. 



XXX.- — Some Servals and an Otomys from East Africa. 

 By R. C. Wroughton. 



On comparing some recently received specimens of Serval 

 with those already in the Natural History Museum it appears 

 that there are several forms sufficiently distinct to deserve 

 subspecific names. 



The following names have already been used in this 

 group, viz. : — 



1776. Felis serval, Erxleben, Syst. Regn. An. p. 523. 

 1781. Felis capensis, Forster, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. p. 1. 

 1820. Felis galeopardus, Desmarest, Mamm. p. 227. 

 1839. Felis senegalensis, Lesson, Mag. Zool., Mamm. 



tab. x. 

 1893. Felis togoensis, Matschie, S.B. Ges. nat. Fr. p. 109. 



It has been found impossible to assign a distinct .locality 

 to typical F. serval; indeed, based as it is on Button's " Le 

 Serval/' it is clearly inapplicable to any African Cat. Ac- 

 cordingly I propose in this paper to ignore the name alto- 

 gether in a technical sense, though the vernacular term 

 Serval may still be used. The type locality of the first valid 

 name Felis capensis is the Cape of Good Hope; while 

 Matschie (I. c), rightly it seems, places senegalensis as a 

 synonym of galeopardus. There are thus names for forms 

 from (1) Cape Colony, (2) Senegal, and (3) Togoland ; the 

 following forms seem readily distinguishable from any of 

 these. 



Felis capensis hindei, subsp. n. 

 A rather small Serval, with very heavy broad markings. 



