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As regards the pattern it is a fact that as well small-spotted as large-spotted 

 Leopards occur in Brit. East Africa. I have seen skins of both kinds there, and 











Fig. 2. A large-spotted Leopard from Brit. East Africa. 



the Swedish ethnographer K. G. Lindblom, Phil. Cand., has sent home four skins 

 with both patterns. It is difficult to form any opinion concerning the value of these 

 two patterns. The large skins appear to have larger spots than the small skins. 



