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Greatest length of skull . . . 



Basilar length 



Zygomatic breadth 



Combined length of p° and p* 

 Length of upper carnassial . 

 Breadth of upper carnassial . 

 Length of lower molar . . . 

 Length of bullaj 



A skull of a male Serval from Natal in this museum has larger dimensions 

 even than Wroughton's type specimen of the present race. The basicranial length 

 of the Natal specimen is about 107 mm., zygomatic breadth 88 mm., combined length 

 of p^ and p* 23 mm., length of bullae 27 mm. The last dimension is the most 

 striking. 



Wroughton's type was from Machakos, Brit. East Africa, but other specimens 

 are recorded in Brit. Museum from Aberdare Range. The place where the present 

 specimen was collected is situated some distance north of the type locality. The 

 range of the subspecies extends, however, also southwards to the Kilimanjaro district 

 which is proved by a skin obtained by Sjostedt from natives in that country and 

 which displays the same general pattern of colouration as the specimen from Thika 

 river. 



The latter specimen was observed in the forenoon ^"/i 1911 skulking through 

 long grass but was betrayed by its long ears visible above the grass. Mr. A. Sjo- 

 gren and I started to go on either side of it so as to intercept it, and the former 

 got the opportunity of shooting it. 



The geographical distribution of the different races of Serval are imperfectly 

 known as yet. The following contribution to the knowledge of this may therefore 

 deserve to be published. Some short time ago I had the pleasure of receiving from 

 Mr. A. Sandberg a skin and a skull of a female Serval obtained near Pweto (Mpueto) 

 in Belgian Congo at the northern end of Lake Mweru. This Serval agrees with regard 

 to' colour and pattern very closely with Felis capensis beirce Wroughton^ from Beira, 

 Portuguese East Africa. The skull as well as the teeth are smaller than the cor- 

 responding parts of the type of F. c. beirce as the following comparison indicates but 

 this is possibly due to difference in sex. 



1 Described in the same paper as F. c. 



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