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Butler (in Maydon, 1932, p. 139) refers to this Cheetah in the 

 Blue Nile district as "everywhere a much scarcer beast than the 

 Leopard, and rarer in the Eastern Sudan than it is in Kordofan. 

 Indeed, on this side of the country I only met it twice, both times 

 on the Setit." 



"Heuglin gives the following locality for the Chitah: Southern 

 Takah and Eastern Sudan not north of 19 N. ... Ruppell . . . 

 mentions Felis guttata as one of the animals hunted ... in the 

 western deserts of the Dongola district." (Anderson and de Winton, 

 1902, p. 185.) 



In the Ubangi-Shari district of French Equatorial Africa a few 

 Cheetahs may occur in the extreme north (Birao), but it is not 

 certain. They are not threatened for the moment." (L. Blancou, 

 in litt., December, 1936.) 



In the French Cameroons the species is found in the thorn-bush 

 country, but is very rare. It does not have any special legal pro- 

 tection. (Ministry of Colonies, Paris, in litt., November 7, 1936.) 



In writing of the Chad region, Malbrant says (1936, pp. 137-138) 

 that the Cheetah is found in the whole of the Sahelian region of 

 central Africa and in the somewhat forested steppes, its southern 

 limit being at about lat. 10 N. It lives sometimes solitarily, but 

 more often in bands of two to four individuals. The natives of Chad 

 do not utilize it for the chase. 



It is found in French Sudan, the Niger Territory, Borku and 

 Ennedi, and the desert part of the Chad Territory (General Gov- 

 ernment of French West Africa, in litt., November, 1936) . 



In Nigeria "it is pleasant to be able to report that cheetah are 

 not nearly as rare as was thought. There are fair numbers in several 

 Provinces and they extend nearly as far south as the Benue River." 

 ("Observer," 1934, p. 54.) 



Senegal Cheetah ; North African Cheetah 



ACINONYX JUBATUS HECKi Hilzheimer 



Acinonyx hecki Hilzheimer, Sitz.-ber. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin 1913, p. 288, 

 fig. 1, 1913. (Based upon a living specimen in the Berlin Zoological Garden, 

 said to have come from Senegal.) 



Fios.: Geoffroy and Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm., vol. 3, pi. 145, 1824; Hilz- 

 heimer, 1913, p. 287, fig. 1. 



The name A. j. hecki, although based upon a Senegal specimen, 

 may be provisionally applied to the Cheetah occurring over the 

 greater part of Palaearctic Africa (Mauretania, Morocco, Algeria, 

 Tunisia, Cirenaica, and northwestern Egypt). It is a rare form. 



It is described as a small, dainty animal, with a ground color of 

 pale reddish ochraceous on the back and sides; spots mostly black, 



