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It is thus justifiablc to use this narae also for an African Leopard witli Schreber as 

 authority. Erxleben's »Felis Panthera» is on the other hand something quite different 

 as it is identical with Schreber' s »Felis Vncia». Therefore it cannot be approved when 

 Trouessart in his »Supplementum » to »Catalogus Mammalinm » calls the Indian Leopard 

 »Felis pardus panthera». 



Before the two old racial names »panthera» and »leopardus» are definetely placed, 

 if it is possible, our knownledge about African Leopards must become considerably 

 widened and more satisfactory. Among the numerous skins of Leopards which I have 

 seen from Eritrea, East and South Africa none has had such distinctly annular spöts 

 with small spöts in the centre as thc-se two skins from inner Congo and the Lake Albert 

 Edward district, and I do not doubt that they constitute a separate geographic race. 

 Although it agrees well enough with Schreber' s short diagnose of his »Panthera» it does 

 not seem probable that the author quoted at that early time could have obtained his 

 type from the centre of Africa. Partly therefore, and partly because the name »panthera» 

 has been used in so many different meanings I have thought it better to give a new name 

 which at one time alludes to the geographical origin, and also to the remarkable pattern 

 described above. 



In Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1907 (p. 783 — 5) Lydekker has described and figured 

 the skin of a large-spotted Leopard from Uganda. He ref ers this to »F. pardus suahelica 

 Neum. ». It is, however, very doubtful what Neumann has meant by this name. It is 

 only said to be given to »die grossgefleckte ostafrikanische Form des Leoparden », because 

 that one »hatte bishcr noch kcinen Namen ».' This is, however, hardly any description, 

 and nothing more is said for the recognition of the Leopard with this new name. Neither 

 has Neumann ihdicated any type-locality as he says: 2 »Der Leopard ist an geeigneten 

 Stellen an der Kiiste wie im Inneren iiberall häufig. » Further he mentions localities 

 as distant as Tanga and Uganda. Lydekker's large-spotted Leopard from Uganda appears 

 to be identical with Camerano's Felis pardus ruwenzorii to judge from the figures of 

 both. The rings in both are broad and compact with a comparatively less broad central 

 space. As Camerano had given the name »ruwenzorii» before Lydekker accepted 

 Neumann' s name »suahelica» for the Uganda Leopard, the latter name cannot on Ly- 

 dekker^ authory be used for the Uganda Leopard, and on Neumann' s, as set forth above, 

 still less. 



Lydekker believed to find some Jaguar-like features in the Uganda Leopard, but 

 as shown above and corroborated by the figures this is much more the case with F. par- 

 dus centralis. 



Felis ocreata Gmel. 



A young specimen without skull. It can not therefore be ascertained to which 

 subspecies it may belong. 



1 Zool. Jahrb., Abt. Syst. Geogr. etc, Bd. 13, Jena 1900, p. 551. 



2 1. c. p. 552. 



