76 EINAR LÖNNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 
It was said that the »Bush-Lion>» which lived on the mainland opposite Mom- 
basa, in the thick bush there, was mane-less. It is thus possible that the Somali 
Lion extends its distribution as far southwards in the districts covered with thick 
bush. 
Felis pardus Lin. 
Unfortunately there was very little opportunity during the whole expedition to 
gain any direct knowledge about the Leopards of British East Africa, although these 
animals are by no means uncommon. No specimen was shot. Only once I saw with 
my own eyes a Leopard, and then I had no weapon. This happened in the thorn- 
bush country near the water place Njoro north of Guaso Nyiri ”"/2 1911. Mr CUN- 
NINGHAME and I were returning to the camp in the afternoon, and we were walking 
along a game path. CUNNINGHAME went a few steps in front of me and had already 
passed the thornbush from which the Leopard jumped out, hardly two metres from 
the path on which we were going. My gunbearer had unfortunately stopped behind 
for a moment, and the animal thus disappeared with long leaps unmolested as CUN- 
NINGHAME unfortunately missed with snap shot. I had only time to state that it 
was a large specimen with a rich rufous colouring, although one could have expected 
to find a pale form in this arid country. 5; 
The characteristic hoarse gnarling sound with intervals (somewhat similar to 
that produced »by sawing a piece of thin wood with a coarse toothed saw» as PoOcocK 
says)" was heard during the nights now and then at Njoro and on the acacia steppe 
at Lekiundu river. 
In the forests of Kenia as well the Leopards are common. TI heard from an 
Englishman who had a grant to collect rubber on the eastern slopes of Kenia, that 
the Leopards within short time had snatched away three dogs from him. In other 
places as well I heard similar accounts proving how fond the Leopards are of dog- 
: meat. 
It is generally believed that there are two kinds of Leopards in British East 
Africa a large and a small race. It is also spoken about a small-spotted and a large- 
spotted race. Although I have not got material to express a definite opinion I think 
it must be observed that the difference in size partly can be explained by the great 
difference between the sexes, the males being much larger than the females. The 
condylobasal length of and old male Leopard from Gheleb, Eritrea (received from 
Rev. K. G. ROoDÉN) is, for instance, 192 mm. while the same measurement in females 
from the same locality (also received from the same gentleman) is from 167 to 175 mm. 
Partly the difference in size also may be due to the greater or less abundance of food. 
The Provincial Commissioner Dr. HInDpDE has drawn my attention to the fact that 
according to his experience the Leopards in the forests and at the edge of the forests 
were larger than those of the open plains, and he regarded this to be due to the grea- 
ter quantity of food which was available to the former than to the latter. 
! Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1907 p. 677. 
