SO. \<) CARNIVORES AND BABOONS FROM AFRICA— HELLER ~ 



Characters. — Felis pardus chui is characterized by its widely iso- 

 lated spots, which are few in number and separated Erom one another 

 by wide interspaces .»! the ground color. From the leopard of British 

 East Africa, suahiliea. it is distinguishable by the wide interspaces 

 between the spots, the while ground color of the upper surface of the 

 hindfeet, the more extensive white surface to the underside of the tail 

 and the larger body size and skull. The west African leopard. 

 leopardus, has actually and relatively much larger cheek teeth, more 

 numerous spots and smaller body size than chui. Pelage very short. 



Coloration. — The dorsal body color is ochraceous, paling on the 

 sides to huffy, and on the- belly and underside of legs to pure white. 

 Spots black, rosetted, the center usually darker ochraceous than the 

 -round color, the margin in some forming a complete ring without 

 any breaks, and distinctl) ocellated in character. Spots on underside 

 of body and on legs generally solid black without a lighter central 

 portion. Spots on head and sides of face broken up into numerous 

 small blotches. The tail basally with rosetted spots which become 

 lengthened into solid streaks on the middle portion, the terminal 

 portion having a ringed appearance with much white from the under- 

 side showing on the sides and nearly separating the black into rings. 



Measurements. — Measurements of the type in the flesh: head and 

 body, 1.240 nun.; tail. 840 ; hindfoot, 255: ear, 90. Skull: greatest 

 length, 243 : condylo-basal length, 225 : zygomatic breadth, 150 ; inter- 

 orbital constriction, t,J ; width across post-orbital processes. (4 ; post- 

 orbital constriction. 38; nasals. jy\^^\ length of upper carnasial, 

 24.5: width of mesopterygoid fossa at suture. 2'). Skull old. the 

 sphenoidal and interparietal sutures fully anchylosed. hirst upper 

 premolar minute and rudimentary. 



Remarks. — Another specimen, an adult male from Rhino Camp, 

 Lado Enclave, is in the National Museum which agrees in color 

 characters and large size of skull with the type. Chui is a low- 

 land race occupying the Nile Valley, and characterized by the reduced 

 number of spots, some of which arc ocellated, large body size and 

 short pelage. A large series of snahiliea from British hast Africa 

 have been compared with the two Nile specimens representing this 

 race and in this series the color differences are well marked and 

 constant. 



ACINONYX JUBATUS VELOX, new subspecies 

 African I [ighland Cheetah 



Type from the Loita Plains. British Easl Africa: adult male. ( .it 

 Xo. 163096, l. S. Nat. .Mus. : shot by Kermit Roosevelt, June 12. 

 1909 ; original (I Idler 1 No. 107. 



