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appears to have been that mentioned by Sclater as having been killed 

 by Col. Hall near Goona in the following year. 



In Rajputana they became extinct about the same date and in the 

 Gazetteer of the " Western Rajpntana States Residency and Jodhpur 

 Residency " we find that a full grown female lion was killed on the Anandra 

 side of Abu by a Bhil shikari in 1872, and in Jodhpur " the last four '' are 

 stated " to have been shot near Jaswantpura about 1872." 



Lydekker gives 1888 as the date the last lions was killed in Guzerat 

 exclusive of Kathiawar, bat the last record I have been able to find is that 

 mentioned by Colonel Nurse in the Society's Journal, volume XIII, 1900, 

 in which he says " the last, I believe, killed in 1878 near the village of 

 Bhoyen, about two miles from Deesa." According to the Gazetteer for 

 Palanpur the lion was " now very rare " there in 1880. 



The lion is still found in small numbers in the Native State of Junaghad 

 in Kathiawar, where they are principally found in the Gir forest, but 

 occasionally lions stray over the border into neighbouring states, where 

 it is not long before they are shot. 



For information in regard to the present position of the lion in Juna- 

 ghad reference can be made to Colonel Fenton's two papers in the 

 Society's Journal, Volumes XIX and XX, and Mr. Crump's notes in the 

 Mammal Survey Report for Kathiawar in Volvmie XXII. 



