16 Lloyd's natural history. 



Art Museum, Dublin, from whose papers the following account 

 is taken. The parents of these hybrids were in a travelling 

 menagerie owned at first by Mr. Thomas Atkins, and subse- 

 quently by his son Mr. John Atkins ; and a total of six litters 

 of hybrids were produced between the years 1824 and 1833. 

 The parent Lion was bred in the menagerie from a Barbary 

 Lion and a Senegal Lioness; while the Tigress was born in the 

 collection of the Marquis of Hastings at Calcutta, and was pur- 

 chased when about eighteen months old from a ship's captain, 

 to whom she had been given by her original owner. Being of 

 the same age as the Lion, she was placed with him in the same 

 cage ; and in the course of two years proved to be in cub. 

 The following is a record of the six litters produced by tlv* 

 union of this pair. 



First Litter. — Born October the 24th, 1824, at Windsor, and 

 comprising two males and a female. They were nourished by 

 a female terrier, but all perished within a year of their birth. 

 These cubs were exhibited to King George the Fourth, at the 

 Royal Cottage, Windsor, on the first of November, by whom 

 they were christened Lion-Tigers. 



Second Litter. — Born April 22nd, 1825, at Clapham Common; 

 there were three cubs, sexes not recorded. Reared by the 

 mother, as also were all the subsequent litters. They only 

 lived a short time. 



Third Litter. — Born December 31st, 1826 or 1827, at Edin- 

 burgh ; one male and two females. Mr. Ball states that 

 the year is given as 1827 in the handbill of the menagerie from 

 which he quotes, and the other references seem to support that 

 date; but Mr. John Atkins says it is given as 1826 in a printed 

 catalogue in his possession. These only lived a few months. 

 The skin of one of them, forming the subject of Plate III., is 

 preserved in the Science and Art Museum at Edinburgh, and a 



