WiLD BEASTS 
AND THEIR WAYS. 
The second of a series of articles on popular Zoology. 
By Sir Harry Jounston, G.C.M.G. 
W. THE GREAT CATS. 
ie Africa at the present day the cat tribe 
is represented by specimens of all its 
principal existing divisions. The lon and 
leopard are examples of the “great cats.” 
The caracal, serval, and servaline* illustrate 
the lynx group. The jungle or “ Kafhr” 
cat is a type of the “small” cats (from 
which our domestic pussy springs), and, lastly, 
there is the cheetah or hunting leopard, which 
is the only surviving representative of a 
second genus in the cat family, a genus 
exhibiting m some respects a less degree of cat-like specialisation. From its size, 
however, the cheetah may be spoken of as a “great” cat, and I propose, therefore, 
to include it m the following notes on the great cats of Africa. 
The lion at the present day has the following area of distribution:—In Asia: the 
northern part of the Kathiawar Peninsula (Gujarat, Western India), South-Western 
Persia (Provinces of Luristan, Khuzistan, Farsistan, and 
Kerman), and the valley of the Tigris in Mesopotamia, 
from near Mosul on the North to the Shat-al-Arab 
(Euphrates estuary) on the South. In Africa: the 
slopes of the Atlas and Anti-Atlas in South-West 
Morocco, a small portion of Western Algeria and the 
Aures Mountains in the eastern part of that colony ; 
the interior of Senegambia and all Nigeria outside the 
Forest Zone; the Central Sudan (Baghirmi, Kanem, 
Wadai, Darfur), portions of the Nyamnyam country 
and the grassy areas of Northern and Southern 
Congoland ; Nileland, south of Khartum (except in the 
swampy districts), Western and Southern Abyssinia, 
Scmaliland, and much of the Uganda Protectorate ; 
all Kast and East Central Africa from Somaliland to 
the Upper Zambesi (except in the settled districts), 
Rhodesia, Damaraland, and the southern parts of 
Angola; in short—negatively—wherever there are not 
hopeless deserts, dense forests, extended swamps, or 
the presence of resolute people armed with guns; 
and—positively—where there is a sufficiency of wild 
game or unguarded domestic animals. But the range 
of this great maned cat was once far wider. The 
Photograph by W. P. Dando, F.Z.S., Regents Park. 
SKULL OF MAN-EATER. 
Shot at Lwonde, B.C.A. Willed seven women and one man. 
Photo by W. P. Dando, F.Z.S., Regents Park. present writer, in 1880, saw lions killed in North- 
LION. Western Tunisia. They did not become extinct in that 
* The serval and servaline cats are not true lynxes, but exhibit some lynx-like features. 
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