78 EINAR LONNBERQ, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 



Thus the big male specimen from Eritrea mentioned above has larger spots than 

 the smaller females without, however, directlj'' deserving the name » large-spotted*. 

 The large-spotted skins (conf. Pig. 2) sent home by Lindblom are larger than the 



Fig. 3. A small-spotted Leopard from Brit. East Africa. 



small-spotted ones (Fig. 3). The number of the spots counted transversely at the 

 middle of the body appears to be about equal in both. The size of the spots may 

 accordingly in East African Leopards stand in oonriection with the size of the ani- 

 mal only and thus be without value as a racial characteristic. 



