3<3 Lloyd's natural history. 



killed no less than eight Lions at a place called Patulghar, 

 seventy miles north-west of Guna. The last Lion killed in 

 Central India, of which I can find any record, was shot by 

 Colonel Hall near Guna in 1873. . . . I have heard too ot 

 a Lion being killed in 1888 in Guzerat, so that it is evident 

 that the animal is not yet extinct in India, although it seems 

 probable that it soon will be." Since this passage was written, 

 the present writer has been informed that Lions still exist in 

 Kattiawar (a district of Guzerat), where they are now strictly 

 preserved by the Indian Government. His informant also 

 states that during the Mutiny-time (that is to say, early in the 

 "fifties") Colonel George Acland Smith killed upwards of 

 three hundred Indian Lions, fifty of which were bagged in the 

 Delhi district. 



In South Africa, where these animals formerly abounded, 

 Messrs. Nicolls and Eglington write that a few Lions "still 

 remain in the extreme northern confines of the Zoutpansberg 

 district of the Transvaal, and about Delagoa Bay. In British 

 Bechuanaland their presence is now and then reported from 

 the extreme westwardly course of the Molopo river, before its 

 waters become absorbed in the waters of the southern 

 Kalahari. But northward, without mentioning any particular 

 locality, throughout South-Central Africa, wherever large game 

 is plentiful, they are more or less numerous, particularly so in 

 the low-lying countries along the East Coast, and the presence 

 of Burchell's Zebras in quantities is a sure indication that 

 Lions are to be found in the vicinity." 



Very similar testimony is given by Mr. H. A. Bryden, who, 

 after mentioning that only occasional traces of their presence 

 are to be met with in British Bechuanaland, states that " not 

 many Lions are nowadays heard of until Khama's country 

 is reached and Palachwe left behind. Along the Botletli they 

 are still numerous, expecially in the busier parts nearing Lake 



