338 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
Description.— General color of the dorsal surfaces “buff” (of 
Ridgway, 1886), a shade deeper along the middorsal line. On the 
forehead, cheeks, and feet are a few small black spots as usual in the 
servals. The nape is marked by the usual two pairs of black stripes, 
the outer of which is the broader (about 10 mm.) and runs from the 
inner base of the ear for about four fifths of the length of the neck 
beyond which point it breaks into a series of black spots. The inner 
pair is similar but one half as broad. On the shoulders all the stripes 
commonly present in the usual serval pattern are broken into elongated 
spots, the largest of which are some 50 mm. long by 10 wide. From 
the shoulders to the rump the body is uniformly spotted, without 
any semblance of a stripe posterior to the shoulders. These spots are 
arranged in more or less definite longitudinal rows, some fifteen in 
number at the middle region, and average about 10 to 15 mm. in 
diameter. The ear, as usual, is black on the terminal half with a 
whitish cross stripe which in the type extends practically across to the 
inner border. On the fore legs, a black band crosses the dorsal side 
below the elbow; while on their ventral surface there are two broad 
black bands. The ventral surface of the body and inside of the legs, 
chin, and upper throat are white except for the black markings. The 
lower throat is pale buff. A narrow black band crosses the throat 
between the angles of the jaws and a second about half the length of 
the throat. The tail is colored buff with seven black rings, the more 
basal of which are not quite complete ventrally; the tip is included 
within the seventh ring. 
Measurements.— The measurements of the fresh specimen are:— 
head and body 792 mm., tail 290, hind foot 185, ear from meatus 90. 
Weight 21 pounds. The tail seems unusually short in this race, about 
36% of the head-and-body length, against 46% in hindei and 43% in 
kempzi its nearest neighbors geographically. Skull.— Basal length 102 
mm., palatal length 46, zygomatic breadth 78.5, interorbital constric- 
tion 22, mastoid width 46, upper cheek teeth (front of canine to back of 
molar) 38, lower cheek teeth (front of canine to back of sectorial) 42, 
width outside upper molars 45.5. 
Remarks.— Wroughton (1910, p. 205) has shown that the name 
Felis serval, based on an Asiatic cat, if not unidentifiable, is at least 
untenable for an African species. He proposes to ignore the name in a 
technical sense, and adopts in its stead Felis capensis of Forster (1781) 
based on the serval of the Cape of Good Hope. He recognizes as valid 
races, F. c. galeopardus of Senegal and F. c. togoensis of Togoland and 
describes three new forms:—F. c. hindei, type locality, Machakos, 
