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applied, is very similar, and consists of several deep 

 notes uttered rather quickly one after the other, and 

 repeated at longer or shorter intervals. I never heard 

 tigers until it was nearly dark. As already mentioned, 

 lions were sometimes very noisy before dusk. 



Another characteristic of Hons is their greater bold- 

 ness. The attack upon our camels in open day, near 

 Ain, and the circumstance of a lioness lying in bushes 

 within 200 yards of our camp, in spite of shots fired at 

 her, at Ailat, are instances. I have known of similar 

 cases with tigers, but they are very unusual. 



Both animals resemble each other m their wandering 

 habits, and in their preference for sandy roads or river- 

 beds for their nocturnal rambles, the feet in both being 

 too tender to stand much walking over sharp stones. 

 The largest tracks of lions seen by us were, as nearly as 

 I could tell, about equal in size to those of the largest 

 tigers. 



I only saw one cow which had been killed by a lion, 

 and in this instance the neck was not broken, as it almost 

 invariably is in large animals killed by tigers. 



The Abyssinian lion has only a short mane like that 

 of Senegal, and is consequently considered by some 

 naturalists as a distinct race from the heavily-maned 

 Cape and Barbary lions. The Persian lion, figured in 

 the Revue et Magasin de Zoologie for 1862, shows the 

 same peculiarity. The Indian lion has now been clearly 

 proved to have a long mane when adult ; the maneless 

 animals, on which the variety Felis leo goojeratensis 

 was founded, having been shown to be young animals. 



