80 EINAR LONNBEEG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 



my material, however, it will appear as if the big large-spotted skins had a com- 

 paratively short tail independent of from which locality they have originated. Thus 

 if the tail is laid forward along the middle of the back it reaches with the tip to 

 above the shoulders as well in the big and comparatively large-spotted skin from 

 Eritrea as in the two big and large-spotted skins from British East Africa. On the 

 other hand in the smaller and small-spotted skins the tail is, as a rule, longer and 

 when laid as above it reaches usually further forward with the tip to the middle of 

 the upper neck, but there are exceptions from this rule so that in some small-spotted 

 specimens as well the tail is comparatively short. 



Prom this discussion it is apparent that the question about eventually two 

 races of Leopards in British East Africa cannot be solved for the present. More 

 material is needed and especially material with indication of sex and age. It is of 

 course then also impossible to say now which subspecific name ought to be applied 

 to this or these Leopards. 



The small Leopard of Somaliland has been called F. p. nanopardus by Thomas.^ 

 The flat skin of the type specimen, an old female, is only 1070 mm. and none of 

 my skins is so small, nor is there any with so short tail as 580 mm. as that of the 

 female nanopardus. 



I wish at this opportunity to draw attention to the fact that it is very easy to 

 ascertain whether the tail of a Leopard is complete or 



^ ^^^^^p-" intact at the tip, because every such tail is provided with 

 a spur or nail at the extreme end, homologous with that at 

 fail tf '^n Ea"t AMcan^Leopa^^ the cud of a Lious tail about which so much has been spoken 



a dorsal view; 6 from the right /^^^^_ ip^ 4 a & b). 

 side. Three times enlarged. \ o ' 



Felis capensis hindei Wroughton. 



Weotjghton: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, Vol. V, p. 205. 



A specimen from the bush steppe near Thika river and not far from Blue Post 

 appears to agree with Wboughton's description of this race of Serval. The present 

 specimen is, however, a little longer, head and body measuring about 84 cm, and its 

 tail is somewhat shorter, about 26 cm. without hair. But as it is a female its skull 

 is not large, and the measurements of the same agree with those recorded by 

 Wroughton. 



1 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1904, Ser. 7, Vol. XIV, p. 94. 



