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reports of them in Central India : but the writer has not heard 

 of one being shot in the last district for many years. The lion 

 is a less active animal than the tiger, and apparently not so 

 powerful ; in ever}- case of a fight between the two occurring in 

 a menagerie the tiger has invariably killed his opponent. 



Essentially a wanderer, the Indian lion avoids heavy forest 

 as a rule, preferring sandy hills covered with thin scrub and grass, 

 and may be tracked and shot on foot in a way that it would 

 be foolhardiness to attempt with a tiger. There is a capital 

 account of the sport given in the ' Oriental Sporting Magazine,' 

 July 1876. The narrator came across four males, shot one 

 that charged him brilliantly, wounded and lost a second, and 

 missed a third. 



Native shikaris declare that lions always put up for the day 

 under the same bushes, and that consequently if there is a lion 

 about he is generally easily found. It would be curious if 

 African sportsmen could corroborate this story. 



Unlike tigers, there is a large preponderance of males to 

 females among full-grown lions, which is supposed to be attri- 

 butable to the mortality among female cubs in teething. 



Measureme7its 



Authority 



rndale 



„ quoting Captain I 



Smee . , ) 



'The Delhi Gazette': a] 



lion killed in Central I- 



India . .1 



'Oriental .Sporting Ma- 1 



gazine,' July 1876 , [ 



Rowland Ward, * Horn I 

 Measurements'. . [ 



Remarks 



African Lion 



F. C. Selous, 'A 

 Hunter's Wan- 

 derings ' 



'The Field,' July 

 13, 1890 



J. S. Jameson 



S. liger of this lengjth would only weigh about 300 lbs. not cleaned. 



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