RANGE OF THE TIGER 
perhaps the same litter with almost silver-white ones; and more frequently 
the mane is darker than the coat, or is diversified with blackish patches. 
The lioness is somewhat smaller than her mate and has no mane, nor have 
the young males. It is recorded that hybrids were produced between a 
lion and a tiger in England in 1827, and the skin of what is believed to be 
one of this mongrel litter is preserved in Salisbury museum, and resembles. 
a leopard inclined to be striped. Similar crosses have taken place recently 
in the Hagenbeck menagerie near Hamburg.” 
Tiger and Leopard and Leopard Cats 
Though so different in outward appearance, the gaudily 
uniformed tiger and khaki-dressed lion have many points in 
common. It would require an expert to tell their skeletons 
apart, except by comparison of skulls. The size and weight 
of average examples are about the same, only the very largest 
males exceeding six and a half feet in length, measured from 
the nose to the root of the tail in a straight line; the tail, which 
tapers to a point, adding about three feet. Females are always 
twelve or fifteen inches shorter than males. 
The present distribution of the species is curiously broken. 
It is to be found in the mountains and swamps around the 
southern end of the Caspian Sea, but not in Persia generally, 
nor in central Asia, nor the lower Indus Valley; but it inhabits 
the Elburz range of northern Persia, and thence ranges eastward 
throughout southern Siberia, Mongolia, northern Manchuria, 
Sakhalin, and Yesso; and formerly, as is shown by fossil re- 
mains, the species ranged northward of the Arctic Circle. 
From Mongolia the tiger range extends southward through 
China and the Siamese and Malay Peninsula to Java, but not 
to Borneo. Westwardly it passes around the Bay of Bengal, 
and extends over all India except the barren northwest; but 
the tiger has never crossed to Ceylon, though quite able 
to pass along a train of connecting islands. This circum- 
stance, and its absence from Borneo, lend force to Blanford’s 
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