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full-grown males have been found “ of a fawn-colour so light 
as to be little removed from dirty-white, and with scarcely any 
appearance of mane; while others in the same district, although 
not so advanced in age, may be ornamented with full-flowing 
manes and dark brown coats, and wice versd. It is in these 
Lions with the largest manes that the tips of the hairs of the 
latter show the most blackness ; whereas in the poorly-maned 
specimens the colour is almost wholly tawny.” Hence we hear 
of “black” and of ‘‘yellow” Lions; but since cubs of both 
kinds may be met with in a single litter, it is quite certain that 
not even racial, let alone specific, differences can be founded 
on such variations. Neither is it true that the Indian Lion 
differs from the African in the absence of a mane. There does, 
however, seem to be a certain amount of local difference in 
the development of this appendage, some South African and 
all Somali-land and Algerian Lions being characterised by 
their full manes. 
Distribution. At the present day, Africa from Algeria to the 
Cape ; Mesopotamia, on the west flanks of the Zagros Range ; 
Persia, south of Shiraz, but not on the tableland ; and India. 
Regarding its occurrence in India, Mr. W. L. Sclater, in the 
** Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Indian Museum,” writes 
that the Lion was much more widely spread formerly than it is 
at the present day. ‘‘The districts in which it occurs or has 
occurred, are Guzerat in the extreme west of India, Central 
India, and Bundelcund. Blanford gives accounts of a Lion 
shot near Rewah in 1866; and also of a Lion stoned to death 
by a Mr. Arratoon, of the Police at Sheorajpur, twenty-five 
miles west of Allahabad. In the Aszan newspaper of June 
zoth, 1885, Colonel Martin, of the Central India Horse, men- 
tions that General Travers and himself in 1860 killed two Lions 
on a hillto the west of Guna in Gwalior ; and in 1862, with 
Colonel Beadon, the Deputy Commissioner, he turned out and 
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