CAPT. W. SMEE ON THE MANELESS LION OF GUZERAT. 17] 
A male killed by me on May 13th, 1830, measured 8 feet 9. inches in total length, 
including the tail: its height was 3 feet 6 inches. A female killed at the same time 
was 8 feet 7 inches long, and 3 feet 4 inches high. The impression made by the paw 
of the male on the sand measured 61 inches across. His weight, exclusive of the 
entrails, was 35 stone of 14 lbs to the stone: the head and neck weighed 33 seer (the 
seer being equal to 2 lbs avoirdupois) ; the body and limbs, 244+ seer; the fore- 
leg, 24, and the hind-leg also 24 seer. His liver was more subdivided than that of 
the female: in the former I counted eleven, and in the latter nine lobes. 
These Lions are found in Guzerat along the banks of the Sombermuttee near Ahmed- 
abad. During the hot months they inhabit the low brushy wooded plains that skirt 
the Bhardar and Sombermuttee rivers from Ahmedabad to the borders of Cutch, 
being driven out of the large adjoining tracts of high grass jungle (called Bheers) by 
the practice annually resorted to by the natives of setting fire to the grass, in order to 
clear it and ensure a succession of young shoots for the food of the cattle upon the first 
fall of the rains. They extend through a range of country about forty miles in length, 
including various villages, and among others those of Booroo and Goliana, near which 
my finest specimens were killed. They are so common in this district, that I killed no 
fewer than eleven during a residence of about a month; yet scarcely any of the natives, 
except the cattle keepers, had seen them previously to my coming among them. The 
cattle were frequently carried off or destroyed, but this they attributed to Tigers: the 
Tiger, however, does not exist in that part of the country. Those natives to whom 
they were known gave them the name of Ontiah Baug, or Camel-Tiger ; an appellation 
derived from their resemblance in colour to the Camel. They appear to be very de- 
structive to domesticated cattle, and the remains of a considerable number of carcases 
of bullocks were found near the place at which my specimens were killed: about ten 
days previously, four donkeys had been destroyed at the village of Cashwah. I could 
not learn that men had ever been attacked by them. When struck by a ball, they ex- 
hibited great boldness, standing as if preparing to resist their pursuers, and then going 
off slowly and in a very sullen manner; unlike the Tiger, which, on such occasions, 
retreats springing and snarling. 
In addition to the district in which I have met with them, these Lions are also found 
on the Rhun near Rhunpor, and near Puttun in Guzerat. Some persons who saw 
them in Bombay stated that they also occur in Sind and in Persia. How far this latter 
statement may be correct I cannot determine ; but I may remark that the Persian Lion 
which is at present exhibited at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, has none of the cha- 
racteristics of the maneless Lion of Guzerat, and seems to me to differ but little from 
individuals known to have been brought from Africa. 
Although it has fallen to my lot to introduce this animal to the notice of zoologists, 
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