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EINAR LÖNNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 



race distihguished by its small head, and by the måne being confined to the neck, no 

 extending över the shoulders. The dimensions of the skull from Kabaré and another 

 which is older and probably from Rutshuru (in the private possession of the present 

 writer) are as follows. 



Fig. 2. Felis leo bleyeriberghi Lönnberg shot by Capt. E. Arrhenius at Rutshuru. 



Greatest lengtli of skull 



Condylo-incisive longth of skuU 



Basal length of skull 



Zygomatic breadth 



Width across uppor carnassials 



Breadth across foremost premolars 



Width of choana; a little behind palatal börder 

 Distance between heels of upper carnassials 



Interorbital breadth 



Width across postorbital processes 



Least postorbital width 



Breadth of bulla 



Length of bulla 



Longth of upper carnassial 



Length of nasals 



Combined breadth of nasals in front 



ef 

 Kabaré 



349 ; 



•294 

 215 

 120,5 



79 

 68,2 

 110 



07 



30,2 



50,5 



37 



92,5 



59,2 



Rutshuru 



348,5 mm. 

 312 

 294 

 224 

 125,5 » 



80 



38 



79 



71,0 » 

 101 



05 » 



31 



52,6 » 



37,4 » 



94.2 » 



62.3 » 



Heller has named a Lion from Uganda Felis leo nyanzce. The cranial measure- 

 ments, which he has communicated, indicate a comparatively small-headcd race, most di- 

 mensions are, however, larger than thoze of Felis leo bleyenberghi. With regard to the colour 



