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The skins were exhibited of a Lion and Lioness killed in Guzerat 

 by Captain Walter Smee, who, at tlie reąuest of the Chairman, 

 stated that they were selected from among eleven obtained by him 

 in the šame country, eight of which he had brought with him to 

 England. The Lion is distinguished from those previously known 

 by the absence of a mane from the sides of the neck and shoulders, 

 the middle line of the back of the neck being alone furnished with 

 longer hairs, which are erect hke those in the šame situation in the 

 Cheetah, Felisjubata, Schreb. The under surface of the neck has 

 long, loose, silky hairs, and there is a tuft at the angle of the ante- 

 rior legs. 



Captain Smee remarked that the existence in Guzerat of a mane- 

 less Lion had been known thirty years since by Colonel Sykes, and 

 that Olivier had seen at Bagdad a similar animal, which was under- 

 stood to havebeen brought thither from Arabia; but that hitherto, 

 he believed, no skin of such a race had fallen under the observation 

 of naturahsts in Europe. Besides the absence of the extensive mane, 

 it has to distinguish it from the ordinary Lion, a somevvhat shorter 

 tai), furnished at its tip vvith a much larger brush. 



Regarding it as a strongly marked variety of the Lion hitherto 

 knovvn, Captain Smee proposed for it the foliowing characters : 



Felis Leo, Linn., Var. Goojratensis. Jiibd maris cervicali 

 brevi, erect (i ; caudce jiocco apicali maximo nigro. 



Hab. in Guzerat (et in Arabia?). 



A malė measured, including the tail, 8 feet 94- inches in length. 

 His totai weight, exclusive of the entrails, was 44- cvvt. 



The manelessLion extends in Guzerat through a range of country 

 about forty miles in length, where it is knovvn as the Ontiah Baug 

 or Camel Tiger, a name derived from its colour. In the hot months 

 it is found in the low busliy vvooded plains that skirt the Somber- 

 niutty and Bhardar rivers, from Ahmedabad to the borders of Cutch. 

 It is destructive to cattle, but does not appearto attackman. When 

 struck by a ball it exhibits great boidness, standing as if preparing 

 to resist its pursuer, and then going oft'slowIy, and in a very suUen 

 manner ; unlike the Tiger, which, on such occasions, retreats spring- 

 ing and snarling. 



Captain Smee entered into various details respecting the animals 

 exhibited by him, comprehending the heads of a paper " On the 

 maneless Lion of Guzerat," which he had prepared for the Society. 



The following notes by Mr. Martin on the anatomy of the Grison, 

 Galicfis vittata, Bell, (Gulo vittatus, Desm.,) were read. They are 

 derived from the examination of an individual vvhich recently died 

 at the Society 's Gardens. 



" The animal vvas a malė, measuring from thenose to theinsertion 

 of the tail 1 foot 6 inches ; the length of the tail vvas 6^ inches. As 

 in the Mustelidce gex\exa\\y , the intestines exhibited no division into 

 small and large, except that the rectum became gradually increased 

 in circumference. The totai length of the intestines vvas 4 feet 5 

 inches. The stomach, when moderately distended vvith air, measured 



