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fearful scene ensued ; *' the lion's mane saved his neck 

 *' and head from being much injured, but the tiger at 

 " last succeeded in ripping up bis belly, and in a few 

 "minutes he was dead."^^ The broad ruff round the 

 throat and chin of the Canadian lynx {Felis Canadensis) 

 is much longer in the male than in the female ; but 

 whether it serves as a defence I do not know. Male 

 seals are well known to light desperately together, and 

 the males of certain kinds (Otaria Jttbata)^^ have great 

 manes, whilst the females have small ones or none. 

 The male baboon of the Cape of Good Hope {Cynoce- 

 jplialus imrcarius) has a much longer mane and larger 

 canine teeth than the female ; and the mane probably 

 serves as a protection, for on asking the keepers 

 in the Zoological Gardens, without giving them any 

 clue to my object, whether any of the monkeys espe- 

 cially attacked each other by the nape of the neck, I 

 was answered that this was not the case, excepting with 

 the above baboon. In the Hamadryas baboon, Ehren- 

 berg compares the mane of the adult male to that 

 of a young lion, whilst in the young of both sexes and 

 in the female the mane is almost absent. 



It appeared to me probable that the immense woolly 

 mane of the male American bison, which reaches 

 almost to the ground, and is much more developed 

 in the males than in the females, served as a pro- 

 tection to them in their terrible battles; but an ex- 

 perienced hunter told Judge Caton that he had never 

 observed anvthino; which favoured this beliefs The 



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'' 'The Times,' Nov. lOth, 1857. In regard to the Ciinada lynx, 

 see Audubon and Bachman, ' Quadrupeds of N. America,' 1846, p. 139. 



3s Dr. Murie, on Otaria, ' Proc. Zoolog. Soc.' 18(39, p. 109. Mr. J. A. 

 Allen, in the paper above quoted (p. 75), doubts whether the hair, 

 which is longer on the neck in the male than in the female, deserves to 

 be called a mane. 



