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full-grown males have been found " of a fawn-colour so light 

 as to be little removed from dirty-white, and with scarcely any 

 appearance of mane ; while others in the same district, although 

 not so advanced in age, may be ornamented with full-flowing 

 manes and dark brown coats, and vice versa. It is in these 

 Lions with the largest manes that the tips of the hairs of the 

 latter show the most blackness ; whereas in the poorly-maned 

 specimens the colour is almost wholly tawny." Hence we hear 

 of "black" and of "yellow" Lions; but since cubs of both 

 kinds may be met with in a single litter, it is quite certain that 

 not even racial, let alone specific, differences can be founded 

 on such variations. Neither is it true that the Indian Lion 

 differs from the African in the absence of a mane. There does, 

 however, seem to be a certain amount of local difference in 

 the development of this appendage, some South African and 

 all Somali-land and Algerian Lions being characterised by 

 their full manes. 



Distribution At the present day, Africa from Algeria to the 



Cape ; Mesopotamia, on the west flanks of the Zagros Range ; 

 Persia, south of Shiraz, but not on the tableland ; and India. 



Regarding its occurrence in India, Mr. W. L. Sclater, in the 

 " Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Indian Museum," writes 

 that the Lion was much more widely spread formerly than it is 

 at the present day. "The districts in which it occurs or has 

 occurred, are Guzerat in the extreme west of India, Central 

 India, and Bundelcund. Blanford gives accounts of a Lion 

 shot near Rewah in 1866 j and also of a Lion stoned to death 

 by a Mr. Arratoon, of the Police at Sheorajpur, twenty-five 

 miles west of Allahabad. In the Asian newspaper of June 

 30th, 1S85, Colonel Martin, of the Central India Horse, men- 

 tions that General Travers and himself in i860 killed two Lions 

 on a hill to the west of Guna in Gwalior ; and in 1862, with 

 Colonel Beadon, the Deputy Commissioner, he turned out and 



