166 CAPT. W. SMEE ON THE MANELESS LION OF GUZERAT. 
generally. Those which pass from the whorl downwards and backwards have the usual 
direction over the anterior limbs and sides, and are uniformly short, close, and ad- 
pressed. Those which pass from the whorl forwards become gradually lengthened, but 
still remain adpressed on the side of the neck; along the middle of the side of the 
neck they are straight and directed forwards, while both the lower and the upper ones 
are curved, the former downwards and the latter upwards. The lower ones in passing 
downwards are very much elongated, soft, and not closely set ; they consequently hang 
loosely in silky tufts along the lower part of the sides and the whole under surface of 
the neck. The upper ones, curved in an upward direction, are somewhat less elon- 
gated and are much more firm and closely set than the lower ones ; along the middle 
line of the back of the neck, where they meet those of the opposite side, they are, by 
the resistance thus offered, directed away from the surface, and they form in this situation 
a dense longitudinal erected crest, nearly four inches in height, and extending from 
before backwards through a space of about ten inches in length: the tips of the hairs 
composing this crest are generally curved backwards, and the crest itself is continued 
posteriorly into a reclining and gradually disappearing series of lengthened hairs which 
are also directed backwards. ‘This series is derived from the gradual lengthening of 
the hairs directed upwards from the whorl on the shoulder, and from their meeting 
with those of the opposite side, and is terminated (at a distance behind the whorl about 
equal to that of its commencement from the front of the whorl) by another series of 
hairs, reversed in their direction, which extends along the middle line of the back 
from near the shoulders to the loins: on the loins and behind them the hairs of the 
middle line again resume their usual and backward direction. In front the cervical 
crest is continued forwards to the interspace between the ears, where it is terminated 
by the gradual running into it of the short hairs of the upper part of the face, which 
have the usual backward direction. In front of the ears and below them tufts of loose 
projecting hairs form a boundary between the face and the neck. 
Such is the fur on the anterior part of the body of the Guzerat Lion. In the Lioness 
the covering consists of short and almost adpressed hairs, except in front of and below 
the ears; and there is consequently only a bare vestige of the cervical crest, and no 
pendent tufts exist beneath the neck. The whorl remains, however, precisely similar to 
that of the male, and the direction of the hairs from it corresponds exactly in both sexes: 
both too have equally a reversed direction in the hairs of the middle part of the middle 
line of the back. In both there occur three ridges of short erect hairs along the face, 
one of which is abbreviated and mesial, being situated between the anterior angles of 
the eyes, and the two others extend in a wavy form, one on each side, from the angle 
of the eye to the nose. 
In the African Lion the hairs of the anterior part of the body radiate also in a 
