74 EINAR LÖNNLERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 
Felis leo somaliensis NOoAcKE. 
NoacH: Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg IX Jahrg. 1891, p. 48. 
North of Guaso Nyiri in the thornbush country I had the opportunity of shoot- 
ing a male Lion with rather strongly worn incisors !!'/s 1911. This specimen belongs 
evidently to the Somali-race. Its general colour is pale yellowish grey, whitish below. 
The lips and chin are whitish. There is a whitish spot above and below the eye. 
Most of the whiskers are pure white but some of the smaller on the upper lip are 
black. With the exception of the parts mentioned the face is sprinkled with dark brown. 
The mane is short the hair averaging about 10 cm., and it does not extend back- 
wards beyond the neck. It is pale buff around the ears and on the sides of the fore- 
neck, forming a blackish brown crest along the upper neck and shading into dull 
brown on the sides of the hind neck. Along the back is a fine sprinkling of black, 
and on the posterior surface of the lower hams a blackish ill-defined streak. There are 
no spots except some few small ones on the inside of the hind legs. On the feet 
a few indistinet whitish stripes are seen. The tail is more sprinkled with black on 
the upper side than the back, and this inereases to the short black tuft. 
The length of head and body of this Lion was about 180 cm. measured in a 
straight line, and the tail whithout hair 82 em. These measurements agree nearly 
with those recorded by MATSCHIE. 
The dimensions of the skull are as follows: 
Maximum length Ofskull 40:82 ss SS SS 30 an 
Condylobasal length tf: StT59 03 INRE IE RY. 308 , 
Basal lengthikgsyc FRAS a sytidrek tr BTR 287,5 » 
ZygomatieFbroa dh ST 0 ae a AL » 
Interorbital breadth <.. . .. FST RENA nt SSR SEG NE 
OAS POSLOr Dita SyvTCOL ss ÄR SE SE SN 61 >» 
Width of platal opening at sut. palatopterygoidea =. . . . . 32 » 
Distance” between pulls in fronti ja ct me et. Sohn JR og 23 
tips of postorbital processes . . . . . . . 98,3 » 
Lpngth, ofsp" rea tbrff= SKE FRANS AS 35 oo» 
The Somali Lion is perhaps the smallest race of its kind, and it may therefore 
be of interest to compare its skull with that of the largest race of Lion, F. leo 
capensis (FIscH), and for this purpose I have selected a fine male specimen shot by 
the famous Swedish explorer J. F. WAHLBERG in »Caffraria interiore» 1845. The maxi- 
mum length of this skull is 395 mm., its condylobasal length 340 mm. and its basal 
length 32,1 mm. Already by comparing these measurements with those above the 
remarkable difference in size is clearly understood, and also that the occipital crest 
extends further backwards beyond the condyles in the South African Lion (55 
mm.) than in the Somali Lion (28 mm.) Even in male skulls of F. leo sabakiensis, 
which I saw in Nairobi, the occipital crest appeared more developed than in F. leo 
