24 TRICHOLOGIA MAMMALIUM; 
The Mane of the Lion—The female of this species has no mane, and the male is 
born without it. 
Examination and Description of the Mane of the Lion, exhibited in Philadelphia in 
1849.—Length, about 12 inches; shape, cylindrical; diameter, ,1, of an inch; color, 
black, white and corneous; lustre, feeble. Button, club-shaped and hooked; direction, 
flowing ; inclination, at an acute angle. 
Shaft, cortex; diameter, 345 of an inch; color, black; fibres, white; diameter, aH 
an inch. One white shaft has a corneous corer and white fibres. Some of the 
are polychromatic. Apices, furcated. ‘Two hairs were found in one follicle. 
Of the Mane of the Horse.-—Examination of the Mane ey the celebrated running mare 
Fashion —Length, about 12 inches ; diameter, from 7; to .5 of an inch. Button, globose, 
contorted, hooked, black, or white ia not hooked. Sheath seldom met with, and when 
it occurs, very thin, white, opaque. Follicle, had none to examine. Shaft, cylindrical 
and cylindroidal, black and brownish yellow. ‘Transverse sections, (or disks,) show a 
brown compact ring, with a small white centre, in which the ends of the fibres can be 
seen. With 3,766 grains, one inch stretched 1° of an inch, and upon removing the 
weight, recovered its original length. With 3,766 grains it broke. Fracture, angular 
transverse. 
The Mane of the Cervus Canadensis——Leneth, 6 inches; shape, oval and ovoidal ; 
diameter, 34, by z¢y of an inch. Black and rusty brown; no lustre; direction, nearly 
straight; inclination, at an acute angle. 
Shaft, cortex; diameter, 3345; of an inch; color, corneous; fibres, dirty white color, 
loosely compacted, the end of them upon a vertical section shrivelled, and not well 
defined; diameter, 3,5, of an inch, solid and heterogeneous in form. 
The Cameleopard, or Giraffe, has a mane which commences between the horns; it con- 
sists of short and almost straight hair, and continues over the neck and on to the withers. 
(Illus. of Nat. Hist. 215.) We have none of this mtegumen in our cabinet. 
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Or Tar Hairs—zamination of the Tail Hair of the celebrated running mare 
“ Fashion.” —Leneth, 9 to 12 inches; diameter, ,1;th of an inch; black, brownish yellow, 
or white; the black predominating. Button. irregularly ened mostly hooked and 
contorted. Sheath, thin, white, opaque, embracing the button closely ; shaft, cylindrical 
or cylindroidal; transverse sections or disks of the black, solid, dark-colored, with a small 
point of a hghter color in the centre; of the brownish yellow, solid yellow, with a white spot 
in the centre, and of the white, solid: dirty-white, opaque, with a lighter speck in the centre. 
Trial with the trichometer :—Bar. 29; Ther. 80; Dew-point, 69. 
With 3,766 grains, itstretched ,4th of an inch; upon removing the weight, recovered 
its original length. 
With 4,266 grains, it stretched 2,ths,and elasticity entire 
6c 4,766 “c “ce aaths, (73 6c 
str 5 26605 9! cc 1ths, “minus gnths. 
CS 76G) c 1sths, elise 
LS (6) 216 Su ac it broke; fracture abrupt. 
