LION. 



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LION (Felis leo). 



Habitat — India (nearly extinct) and Africa. 



F. C. Selous, in ** A Hunter's Wanderings," says weight 500 lb. 

 "The Field," July 13th, i8go, weight 563 lb. 



Weight, one killed by J. S. Jameson in Mashuna Land, South 

 Africa, November 1887, 385 lb. 



