24 TRICIIOLOGIA MAMMALIOM; 



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, ^ 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, ^-$ of an inch ; color, black ; fibres, white ; diameter, ^-^ o f 

 an inch. One white shaft has a corneous cortex, and white fibres. Some of the shapes 

 are polychromatic. Apices, furcated. Two hairs were found in one follicle. 



Of the Mane of the Horse. Examination of the Mane of the celebrated running mare 

 Fashion. Length, about 12 inches ; diameter, from -j^to J u of an inch. Button, globose, 

 contorted, hooked, black, or white and 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. Length, 6 inches; shape, oval and ovoidal ; 

 diameter, -%%-$ by T |^- of an inch. Black and rusty brown; no lustre; direction, nearly 

 straight; inclination, at an acute angle. 



Shaft, cortex; diameter, ^^^ of an inch; color, corneous; fibres, dirty white color, 

 loosely compacted, the end of them upon a vertical section shrivelled, and not well 

 denned; diameter, -5-^-5 of an inch, solid and heterogeneous in form. 



The Cameleopard, or Giraffe, has a rr\ane which commences between the horns; it con- 

 sists of short and almost straight hair, and continues over the neck and on to the withers, 

 (lllus. of Nat. Hist. 215.) We have none of this integumen in our cabinet. 



OF TAIL HAIRS. Examination of the Tail Hair of the celebrated running mare 

 "Fashion." Length, 9 to 12 inches; diameter, -g^th of an inch; black, brownish yellow, 

 or white; the black predominating. Button, irregularly shaped; 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 lighter 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, it stretched V n f an inch; upon removing the weight, recovered 

 its original length. 



With 4,266 grains, it stretched \ths,'and elasticity entire 

 " 4,766 " " ^.ths, " 



" 5,266 " " ^ths, " minus 



" 5,766 " " lAfhs, " " 



' 6,266 " it broke; fracture abrupt. 



