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close our notice of what is, in our own opinion, the grandest of all Carnivores, with 
the following extract from Mr. Drummond’s interesting book, upon which we have 
already drawn so largely. “Perhaps the most beautiful sight that I ever saw in 
connection with lions,” writes Mr. Drummond, “ was on a morning when I had gone 
out to hunt with one bearer at dawn. I had got far from camp, and, most care- 
lessly, my gun was still unloaded, while I was examining some buttalo spoors, when, 
on looking up, I saw my gun-bearer, who had my cartridges, running away at full 
speed. Knowing that he must have seen something to frighten him so, I did not 
shout, but went to where he had been standing a few yards ahead, and there, sure 
enough, not twenty yards off, were a pair of lions. They were both full grown, 
and the male had an immense mane, and formed altogether as handsome a pair as I 
ever saw. The lioness was rolling on her back, playfully striking at her lord and 
master with her fore-paws just like a kitten, while he stood gravely and majestically 
looking on.” 
THE TIGER AND THE TIGRESS. 
THE TIGER (Felis tigris). 
Whether the lion or the tiger is the more powerful animal, is a question which 
has given rise to much discussion, but, as we have already mentioned, the opinion 
of one most competent to decide is in favour of the superiority in this respect of 
the latter. The absence of the mane, which forms such a striking feature in the 
male lion, renders, however, the appearance of the tiger decidedly less imposing, 
and hence the second position in the series is commonly assigned to this “ cat.” 
In spite of the difference in coloration, the lion and the tiger are very closely 
allied animals, both agreeing in having a circular aperture for the pupil of the 
eye, and also in regard to the characters of the so-called hyoid bones which support 
the tongue. 
