24 THE TOWER MENAGERIE. 
THE BARBARY LIONESS. 
Feris LeEo—Var. Numipa. 
In the male of this variety, which has been more fre- 
quently brought to Europe than any other, the mane 
attains as much developement and covers the under 
parts of the body as extensively as in the Lion of Eastern 
Asia, whom, however, at the adult age, he exceeds con- 
siderably in size. The Lioness has little to distinguish 
her from the other breeds. 
The specimen now in the Menagerie is a young female 
about three years and a half old. She was a present to 
his Majesty from the Emperor of Morocco. During 
some tempestuous weather, which occurred on her pas- 
sage, the male who accompanied her was killed, and she 
herself met with an accident, from the falling of a spar, 
by which she was curtailed of her fair proportions, and 
deprived of the greater part of her tail. The disfigure- 
ment thus caused is, however, trifling, and she is still a 
very fine animal. 
