o84 REPORT OF THE HARVARD AFRICAN EXPEDITION 
by a leopard. Although armed only with a shotgun, he succeeded in killing it 
with heavy shot. 
Felis serval togoensis Matschie. West African Serval; ‘‘Tiger”’ 
Felis serval togoensis Matschie, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin, 1893, p. 109: Bismarkburg, 
Togo, West Africa. 
Smaller and slenderer than a leopard; ground color yellowish or ochraceous buff, with about 
five median lengthwise black lines forming broken narrow stripes, below which are about as many 
rows of larger oval spots of black, those on the haunches largest; tail about ten inches long with 
about six black rings alternating with yellowish ones. West Coast forest. 
Servals are well known from Sierra Leone and Liberia, but we were unsuc- 
cessful in securing fresh specimens. The junior author, however, purchased two 
skins from the natives, at Gbanga and Bashman Kulu, which are a much richer 
yellowish than a similar skin from Ruanda, Congo, representing F’. s. faradjius 
J. A. Allen. Of the various names applied to servals from West Africa, J. A. 
Allen and others have shown that galeopardus is unidentifiable and senegalensis 
is preoccupied for the lion (although later replaced by pococki Cabrera, 1910). 
Matschie’s name, togoensis, is apparently therefore the next available for the 
form of the West Coast forest. 
Felis ogilbyi ogilbyi Schinz. Servaline Cat 
Felis ogilbyi Schinz, Synopsis Mamm., vol. 1, p. 469, 1844: Sierra Leone. 
Resembling the serval, but the spots much more numerous and very much smaller. Equatorial 
Africa. 
Undoubtedly this cat occurs in Liberia, for the type locality is Sierra Leone 
and it seems to be a forest-dwelling species of Central Africa. We are unable to 
give positive evidence of its presence, however. The finely speckled pattern of 
spots is now believed to be a characteristic distinguishing it from the serval. 
Felis aurata Temminck. Golden or Tiger Cat 
Felis aurata Temminck, Monogr. Mammal., vol. 1, p. 120, 1827: no locality. 
Body either gray-brown or reddish, nearly unspotted or with indistinct spots on the flanks; 
tail banded. Size about as large as a serval but less slender. Sierra Leone to the Congo. 
This forest cat occurs throughout its range in two color phases, a reddish and 
a brownish gray, usually with indistinct spotting, or the spots confined to the 
flanks. The junior author purchased a native skin at Zugi Town, in eastern 
Liberia, in the brown phase, with the ground color brownish gray, much darker 
medially, the entire body covered with rounded spots of a deeper brown. Sir 
Harry Johnston has recorded both the red and the brown phases from Liberia 
and figures the latter in color in his work on Liberia. Biittikofer secured speci- 
mens from the Farmington River and at Bavia, and mentions having seen it 
hunting in tall grass near Buluma. Probably the name celidogaster is applied 
to the grayish-brown phase of this cat. 
