XIX. Some Account of the maneless Lion of Guzerat. By Capt. Waxrer Saez, of the 
Bombay Army, F.Z.8. 
Communicated December 10, 1833. 
In bringing under the notice of the Society the accompanying skins of a Lion and 
Lioness killed by me in Guzerat, I esteem myself fortunate in being enabled to demon- 
strate, by their exhibition, that there exists a race in which the king of beasts is desti- 
tute of the flowing mane which constitutes the most remarkable of his regal ornaments. 
That such a race existed in ancient times, and that in more modern days it was still to 
be met with, has, I am aware, been very generally believed by zoologists: but the 
belief has hitherto rested on the testimony of authors, and has not until now been con- 
firmed in Europe by the only evidence which can, in such cases, be regarded as con- 
clusive,—the production of the animal itself, or of its skin. The skins now before the 
Society are selected from among eight which I have brought to England: the total 
number of such Lions killed by me in the district in which they were obtained having 
been eleven. In none of them was the mane more extensive than in the male now ex- 
hibited ; and in none of them was it in any degree pendent. 
The epithet of maneless, as applied to this Lion, is, however, rather comparative than 
positive: it is maneless as compared with the Lion of Africa, in which the long and 
dense and flowing hairs that spring from the hinder part of the head, from the neck, 
and from the shoulders, conceal completely the form of these parts, and envelope the 
whole of the anterior part of the animal except its face: it is maned as compared with 
the Tiger, the Leopard, and other large species of the genus Felis,—maned even in a 
greater degree than the hunting Leopard or Cheetah, to which the designation of jubata 
has been specially appropriated. As in the last-named animal so in the Guzerat Lion is 
the back of the neck ornamented by a broad longitudinal line of erect hairs of greater 
length than those of the adjoining parts ; as in it the sides of the neck are also furnished 
with longer hairs; but the throat has in addition hairs of still greater length, which 
hang downwards in loose silky locks. It is therefore only as a Lion that it can be 
regarded as maneless, but as a Lion it is well entitled to this distinction. 
The nature and appearance of the mane will be best understood by describing with 
some little detail the covering of the anterior part of the body. On the top of each 
shoulder there is a point from which the hairs diverge in all directions in a whorled 
manner: adjoining to this point they are all equally short with those on the body 
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