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EINAR LÖNNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 



t hat it belongs to a large race, all measurements being, as is shown below, larger t han those 

 of the Ruwenzori Leopard which has the total length of the skull 224 mm. On the other 

 hand the measurements are smaller than those which have been recorded by Pocock 

 for some West-African Leopard skulls, the total length of which varies between 278, i and 

 262,5 mm. 



A Leopard »from the Loita Plains, Southern Guaso Nyiro district, British East 

 Africa» described by Heller under the name Felis pardus fortis 1 has also a very large 

 skull with the greatest length amounting to 260 mm., 2 and also other dimensions greater 

 than those of the present specimen from Kabaré. F. p. fortis is, however, verv differ- 

 ent. It is described as having »numerous small rosetted spöts, the central color of 

 which is not differentiated in shade from the general ground color». Unlike the Leo- 

 pard from Kabaré F. p. fortis has no upper first premolar, and its bulla? are much smal- 

 ler not rising to the level of the mastoid process. 



Another Leopard, from Gondokoro, also described by Heller (in the same paper 

 as the foregoing) under the name of Felis pardus chui is also a large animal with the 

 greatest length of the skull 243 mm. It is said to have »widely isolated spöts», »more 

 extensive white surface to the underside of the tail» (than suahilica). It has smaller 

 upper carnassial, but broader pterygoid fossa than the Leopard from Kabaré, the skull 

 measurements of which are recorded below. 



Total length of skull 



Condylo-incisive length 



Basal length 



Zygomatic breadth 



Length of nasals mesially 



Combined breadth of nasals anteriorly 



Breadth of brain case 



Breadth of mesopterygoid fossa . . . 



Interorbital width 



Length of palate mesially 



Length of p 5 



Length of p 1 



Distance between bullae 



Breadth of bullae 



o" 

 'rom Ki 



bare 



from Inner 

 Congo 



233 mm. 



239 mm. 



210 



» 



219 » 



196 



» 



205 



141,5 



» 



147,6 » 



54 



» 



— 



35,5 



» 



— 



77,7 



» 



75 



23,5 



» 



2 ,5 » 



39 



» 



38,6 » 



103 



» 



104 » 



18 



» 



18,2 » 



26 



» 



26 » 



21 



» 



21 



21 



» 



21,5 » 



The capacity of the brain cavity of the Leopard from Kabaré is 170 ccm. and that of 

 the Congo Leopard about 165 ccm. In the table above are at the side of the measurements 

 of the Kabaré skull also recorded the corresponding ones of a male Leopard skull from 

 Inner Belgian Congo which has been presented byLieutenant Karl Eriksson, and which 

 closely resembles this onc. 



1 Smithson. Misc. Coll., Vol. 61, n:0 19, Washington 1913. 



2 In »Life Histories of African Gamo Animals» by Roosewelt & Heller the same leopard is said to 

 be from the »Mail highlands of British East Africa». 



