NO. I«) CARNIVORES AND BABOONS FROM \l-KK \ HELLER 3 



without black, the hair uniform tawny; flanks without any evidence 

 of a mane. Tail like the back in color, excepl the terminal four inches 

 which are furnished with a heavy black tuft in which the hair is 

 black to the roots. ( Kltside of legs like the hack in color, inside 

 ochraceous-buff like the underparts; hair on underside of toes black 

 in conformity with the black footpads. I lead lawny black lined like 

 the back in color, the black ear patches and the deep black eyelashes 

 alone showing contrast : whiskers mixed black and white ; ears tawny. 

 marked 011 the back by a broad band of black occupying the middle 

 halt ot the ear, the base and tip tawny ; inner side of ears ochraceous. 



Measurements. — Measurements of tanned skin: head and body, 

 [,780 mm.; tail. 7(10: hindfool (bone still in place). 350. Skull old. 

 the sphenoidal and occipital sutures anchylosed and the sagittal and 

 lambdoidal crests well developed. Greatest length from occipital 

 crest to tip of premaxilke, 333 mm. ; condylo basal length, JnJ : zygo 

 matic breadth. -ys.S : interorbital constriction. 69; post-orbital con- 

 striction, '10 ; width across post-orbital processes, 104 : nasals, 92 x < »_' . 

 upper cheek teeth series. 73 ; length of upper carnasial, 35 ; width of 

 mesopterygoid fossa at suture, 45; distance between bullae across 

 basi-occipital, _><>: condylo-basal length of mandible, 230. 



Remarks. — The type was received alive March [9, [904, and 

 deposited in the National Zoological I 'ark at Washington where it 

 lived until November 14, 1906. < )wing to its short stay in captivity 

 it may be taken as a normal specimen of the lion inhabiting the Abys- 

 sinian highlands. Neither the hair covering nor the condition of the 

 skull shows any abnormalities due to its life in the Zoological Park. 

 Judging.by its skull it was an old animal well along in middle life at 

 its death, and was doubtless fully adult when captured by the Abys- 

 sinians. Another adult male specimen from Abyssinia, also from the 

 National Zoological I 'ark, is in the National Museum. This speci- 

 men agrees with the type in the broad character of the skull and 

 small size of the teeth. A specimen received from the Sudan, sent 

 by the Sirdar. Sir Reginald Wingate, to the National Zoological 

 Park, is also a member of this race. The skull of this specimen is 

 even wider than in the type and exceeds in this dimension the record 

 lion skull from Delago Bay, South Africa, now in the Berlin Museum. 

 The two Abyssinian and the Sudan skulls are easily distinguishable 

 by their great width, wide mesopterygoid fossa and small cheek 

 teeth, from a series of 30 male skulls of massaica of equal age in the 

 National Museum from British hast Africa, shot by Colonel and 

 kermit Roosevelt. Paul J. Rainey, John Jay White, and Dr. \V. L. 



