SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 6l 



tion, 27 ; length of palate, 57; width of narial opening, 18: width of 

 mesopterygoid fossa at suture. 11 ; greatest diameter of M 1 , [6.5; 

 condylo-basal length of mandible, 85. Skull old, with the sutures all 

 obliterated, hut the teeth show well defined CUSpS. 



Remarks. — The type is the only specimen in the National .Museum. 

 \ female topotype of hindei from the Thika River, however, is in the 

 eolleetiou also collected by 11. J. Allen Turner. The skull of this 

 specimen is practically the same age and size as the type, hut differs 

 from it by the possession of the first upper premolars, narrower 

 narial opening, heavier zygomatic arches and longer mastoid proc- 

 esses. The race here described is doubtless confined to the Nile 

 drainage and is the Uganda or Nyanza representative of the giant 

 Abyssinian otter, meneleki, the largest known race. From typical 

 capensis of South Africa it differs by the presence of white tips to 

 the ears, but is otherwise quite identical to it in color and size of body, 

 and is perhaps best considered an intermediate race between capensis 

 and meneleki. 



FELIS LEO ROOSEVELTI, new subspecies 

 Abyssinian Lion 



Type from the highlands of Abyssinia near Addis Ababa, pre- 

 sented by Emperor Menelik to President Roosevelt in 1904 ; old male. 

 Cat. No. 144054, IT. S. Nat. Mus. ; original (Nat. Zool. Park) 



No. 



1 151 



530/ 



Characters. — Veils lea roosevelti is readily distinguishable from 

 the other described races by the greater breadth of the skull, the 

 wider mesopterygoid fossa and the smaller size of the cheek teeth. 

 The zygomatic arches are bowed outward to so great an extent that 

 the outline of the skull is quite triangular. Externally this race is 

 characterized by large body size, dark tawny coloration and heavy 

 black tipped mane. 



Coloration. — The dorsal coloration is tawny, lined over the middle 

 of the back with black tipped hairs ; sides of body tawny-ochraceous 

 without, darker spots and merging gradually into the lighter ochra- 

 ceous underparts. Mane heavy, extending from the forehead to be- 

 hind shoulders and over the whole throat and chest areas to the fore- 

 legs and tuft on back of elbows ; length of individual hairs on nape 14 

 inches; color effect distinct blackish, but mixed considerably by 

 tawny hair; shoulders darkest, the hair chiefly black with short ter- 

 minal tawny tips : front of mane about head and forethroat lightest, 



