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Shortly — tlie occurrence of black manes amongst the Kathiawar 

 lions is extremely rare, but that they do occasionally occur 1 consider 

 there is sufficient evidence to show. More evidence on the point 

 could possibly be adduced by any resident interested in the subject, 

 from the Gir pagis who would certainly have noticed the occurrence 

 of any black manes amongst the lions of more recent generations. 



The lion is a far more noisy animal than the tiger and for this rea- 

 son is more easily brought to bag, being so much more in evidence. 

 They generally commence roaring early in the night and often kept 

 it up until the dawn for no apparent reason. When arranging for a 

 shoot it is usual, besides tying out kills, to locate pagis, in parties of 

 two, in diJfferent parts of the jungle overnight ; these ascertain during 

 the night the direction in which any lions are moving, by their roafs, 

 and as soon as it is light enough to see, pick up the tracks which they 

 never leave until they have marked down the animal or animals, as 

 the case may be, either busy over a kill or more often resting for the 

 day, resting. under the shade of a large wadh or banyan tree, or some- 

 times, in a hoh'ira or waterhole to which they are very partial. A 

 pagi told me that while watching one evening over one of these 

 bohiras he saw a hyosna, two porcupines and Knally two lions emerge 

 from it at short intervals! On another occasion, while watching 

 over one of them myself no less than three lions came out of it. 

 The first one that did so was shot by one officer who was watching 

 with me, but when the remaining two came out, it was too dark 

 to see them, although I heard them growling only a few yards 

 away under my tree. Since the lions, as a rule, cover a great deal of 

 o-round during their nightly wanderings, the spot where they are 

 eventually marked down may be many miles away from camp. 



Havino- located them for the day one pagi remains to keep a watch 

 over them, while the other one goes off with the kimhher to one of the 

 sowars who have been stationed beforehand in several convenient 

 localities and the latter, in his turn, takes it at once, to the sports- 

 man's camp. A lion having been marked down, there are two ways 

 of bringing it to bag, viz., either by driving in the usual way, or by 

 walking it up. The former method is usually resorted to, but the 

 latter is by far the more certain way of getting a shot, although 

 for obvious reasons a good deal more risky in other respects. I have 



