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territory shown in fig. 1 1 1 of my paper, and provisionally referred 

 to the same race as the Cameruns Elephant. Now that I have seen 

 the photograph (to say nothing of the original) of the latter, I 

 have little doubt that the Congo Elephant is distinct — an opinion 

 shared by Dr. Matschie. Unless, then, it be identical with 

 E. a. albertensis, the name U. a. cottoni, already suggested in my 

 original paper, may be adopted for the Congo Elephant, although 

 I am unable to define its characteristics. 



I may also refer to another point which has been brought to 

 my notice since the publication of the Elephant paper, namely 

 that the head represented in fig. 112 was obtained only a few 

 miles away from the spot where the type of E. a. selousi, fig. 108, 

 was killed. The Duke of Westminster's Elephant must therefore 

 belong to the last-named race. The mistake is largely due to the 

 fact that when first writing the paper I was misinformed as to the 

 locality of the type of E. a, sehiisL It follows that the alleged 

 inflection of the lappet of the ear in the latter is a feature of no 

 importance ; its presence or absence depending apparently upon 

 the way in which the ear is mounted. 



The Uganda Leopard. 



The skin now exhibited (text-fig, 205), which was sent home 

 from Uganda by Mr. Stanley C. Tomkins, is quite difierent in 

 pattern from any other African leopard-skin that has hitherto 

 come under my notice, and is certainly racially distinct from the 

 ordinary small- spotted Leopard, of which, according to Mr. R. I. 

 Pocock (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, pp. 675, 676), the West African Felis 

 pardus leopardus is the typical i-epresentative. In addition to its 

 colour-pattern, the Uganda skin is remarkable for the relative 

 shortness of the limbs and tail ; the length of the latter falling 

 consideiably short of half that of the head and body. Mr. Tomkins 

 assures me that the tail is entire. 



As regards pattern, the spots on the head are small and solid, 

 and there is also the usual patch of larger solid spots on the 

 withers, but with these exceptions and the occurrence of a double 

 row of large oblong spots near the root of the tail, which seems 

 quite peculiar to this form, the whole of the markings on the 

 upper-parts take the form of large rosettes. These are frequently 

 more or less completely closed, and often show one or two small solid 

 spots in the enclosed area, which is darker than the general 

 ground-colour. The latter gradually lightens from pale rufous 

 fawn on the middle line of the back, to white on the under-parts, 

 where, as on the limbs, the spots are very large and more or less 

 completely solid. The point of resemblance to the ordinary small- 

 spotted African leopai-ds is the nariowness of the network of 

 light lines. 



A large-spotted Leopard, Felis leopardus suaheliciis, has been 

 described by Dr. O. Neumann (Zool. Jahrb., Syst. vol. xiii. p. 551, 

 1900), of which Uganda is one of the localities. No mention is, 



