FELIS PAEDUS.—PELIS SERVAL. 
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Heuglin {‘Eeise N.O.-Afr.’ ii. 1877, p. 51) says that lions occur as far north as the 
hills of Beni Amer; he gives the Arab names of ‘ Asad,’ ‘ Sabua ’ or ‘ Lebuah.’ 
James (‘Wild Tribes of Soudan,’ 1883, p. 229) mentions that two officers of “the 
Blues,” who had travelled with him from Suez to Suakin, shot a lion in the Khor 
Baraka, two days’ journey from Suakin. One of them gave a most graphic account 
of their adventures in ‘ Bailey’s Magazine,’ 1881, 1882, or 1883.— W. E. de W. 
Felis pardus, Linn. 
Fellspardus, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. x. 1758, p. 41; Heuglin, Peterm. Mittheil. 1861, p. 14; Reise 
N.O.-Afi’. ii. 1877, p. 52. 
Felis pardus, var. nimr, Hemp. & Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. dec. ii. 1832, pi. 17. 
Felis leopardus, Hartmann, Zeitschr. Gesellsch. Erdk. Berlin, hi. 1868, p. 52. 
Ehrenberg separated the African leopard from the Asiatic form, and the distinguishing 
subspecific name nimr, which he bestowed upon the former, is generally applied to this 
race with solid spots on the shoulders. It is mentioned as occurring in the Province 
of Dongola. 
The skin of a young animal which was purchased in the Sudan, and which lived in 
the Zoological Gardens at Gizeh for some months, was acquired by Mrs. Anderson. 
This species is of the usual African type. 
Hoskins (‘ Travels in Ethiopia,’ 1835, p. Ill) says that the leopard occurred on the 
plain to the east of Shendi. 
The same writer also says (p. 129) that no leopards occurred on the route from 
Metammeh to the wells of Gagdul. 
Holroyd (Journ. Roy. Geogr. Soc. 1839, p. 163), in his notes on a journey to Kordofan 
in 1836-37, says the Bayuda bend of the Nile abounds in herbaceous plants and one 
or two varieties of Mimosa, and that among many objects of great interest in this area 
is the leopard. 
The Leopard is often represented in hunting-scenes on the walls of tombs both in 
Lower and Upper Egypt.— W. E. de W. 
Felis serval, Schreb. 
Felis serval, Schreb. Saiig. iii. 1778, p. 407, pi. cviii. 
Felis {Galeopardus) serval, Heuglin, Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. 1877, p. 55. 
Heuglin records this species from Werne in Takah, and gives the Arab name 
‘Badj.’ 
