rik The Carnivora. 
“In the lion, perhaps, nothing else gives the human and, 
therefore, intellectual, and imperial aspect so much as this tuft 
of hair on the lower jaw. It has no bony prominence behind 
it—as in man—but it looks like a chin. The ancient Egyptians 
and Assyrians knew this well, and their sculptors marked this 
angle in a lion’s face with great precision and effect. 
“The tiger, and, in a less degree, the leopard and jaguar, &c., 
gain much of dignity from this tuft on the lower jaw. But to 
none of these is given what the lion has, viz., an apparently lofty 
cranium. I say ‘apparently’ because this, like his chin, is 
purely fictitious, the angles of the bone differing little from 
those of the tiger. But his fictitious forehead and chin are real 
enough to give him a very noble appearance. In the form and 
expression of his mouth, also, there exist several quasi human 
characteristics. 
“My own observations and measurements have made me doubt 
whether the lion does stand ‘slightly higher than the tiger.’ I 
should be inclined to place their average heights as the same, 
viz., about 3ft. at the shoulder. No doubt individuals of both 
species sometimes attain a far higher stature. 
“T think, as Mr. Nettleship, that the tigeris the stronger. 
a 2 The average tiger has always seemed to me to be 
larger in the forearm than the average lion (a very important 
feature); but here one must be cautious on account of the 
mane, which, no doubt, makes the lion’s arm look smaller 
than it is. To prove this, you have only to compare a lion with 
a lioness. The latter generally appears to be more fully 
developed, just as a man in a jersey always looks stronger than 
one in a loose coat. Nevertheless, I have little doubt that the 
muscular volume of a tiger is rather greater than that of a 
lion, and I should judge that the quality of its fibre is very 
superior. Itis more beautifully hung together than the lion, 
and is far more flexible and lithe, and seems to have much 
greater spring in it. : 
“The tiger is the cat of cats. The lion, though a cat, is stiffer, 
and its shoulder action, when compared to that of the tiger, is 
more like that of a dog. 
“In comparing: the relative size and development of the lion 
and tiger, a lioness and tigress should be used. In this case the 
apparent difference will not be considerable. The real difference 
is, I think, greater. 
“BRITON RIVIERE.” 
It is, of course, no easy matter to obtain trustworthy statistics 
of size, because the skin is more often measured than the dead 
beast in the flesh—which alone will give a correct result; and 
it is still more difficult to obtain the weight, for the simple 
