SPECIES OF THE f.IOX. 5 



of his teeth remaining, and yet the manes of both 

 were similar that is blackish. 



Besides the so called black and yellow-maned 

 lion, the Anna Zulu Caffirs, whose opinions 

 are by no means to be despised, distinguish 

 between the grey or white, the red and the 

 grey-necked lion (called by the Boers the blue- 

 necked), which they say is peculiarly savage ; and, 

 in addition, both hunters and natives make mention 

 of a maneless lion. 



In Damora-land again, the inhabitants speak of 

 two kinds of lion. One of a whitish hue, maneless and 

 very long in the body, and hence designated by them 

 the Onkyama Omlaskv, that is the lion-giraffe ; and 

 the other as of a brownish, or of the usual tawny 

 colour, short in the body, and of a fierce disposition. 

 This they call Onhyama Okomba. 



But the late Sir Cornwallis Harris (then captain), 

 who, as the reader may be aware, spent some time 

 in Southern Africa on a shooting excursion, alto- 

 gether gainsays the notion of two species of lions 

 being found there; for, after telling us "that, with 

 the exception of the mane of the African lion being 

 often larger and of a finer texture than that of the 

 Indian, attributable probably to the less jungly 

 nature of the country it infests, and to the more 

 advanced age to which it is allowed to attain, it is 

 in every respect (and often in this respect also), 

 precisely similar to that found in (-Ju/erat in India." 

 He goes on to say, " But I need hardly inform the 

 well-instructed reader that both the colour and the 

 size depend chiefly upon the animal's age, the 



