174 CAPT. W. SMEE ON THE MANELESS LION OF GUZERAT, 
language a Leopard; if the side face alone is seen, it isa Lion. Hence, with them, 
the Lions passant and gardant of the arms of the Kings of England would be either 
Lions leoparded, or Leopards maned. The omission of the mane, in rude tricking, 
would indeed reduce them to Leopards, and as such they were originally regarded ; for 
the earliest present to a National Menagerie in England,—that made by the Emperor 
Frederic IT. to Henry III.,—consisted of three Leopards, in allusion, as Matthew Paris 
expressly states, to the bearing of the royal shield, ‘‘ in quo tres leopardi transeuntes 
figurantur.” The bearing may, however, have been intended to represent the Plinian 
and heraldic hybrid between the two races,—a being altogether imaginary, and there- 
fore a fit companion for the griffins and the unicorns, and the rest of that marvellous 
and monstrous fraternity. 
PLATE XXIV. 
Fexis Leo GoosraTEnsis. 
