31 



LION 



{Copied by permission from the proceedings of the Zoological Society of London). 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SLOPE OF HAIR ON THE NASAL AND 

 FRONTAL REGIONS OF THREE TYPES OF ANIMALS. 



The ungulates all show more or less clearly the pectoral 

 whorl referred to among the carnivores, with a few exceptions, 

 such as the gnus, certain very fine-haired gazelles, and a 

 few rare deer. They also have on the neck and spine a 

 certain number of radiating whorls, some with feathering and 

 no crest, some with both feathering and crest. On the neck, 

 for instance, the domestic horse shows, in many instances, 

 near the edge of the mane, or more towards the under surface 

 at the junction of the cephalo-humeral muscle and the 

 sterno-thyroid, or in the central line underneath a whorl 

 with more or less feathering extending forwards against the 

 general stream of hair of the neck, and perhaps a crest. 

 These are most common in the upper portion of the neck 

 near the mane. Great varieties of these are found in 

 different deer, antelopes, and oxen. 



On the spine, also, many of these singular arrangements 

 of hair are found, e.g., on a certain antelope (cobus ellipsi- 

 prymnus) there is a whorl over the very lowest vertebrae in 

 the lumbar region, and this is the starting-point of a reversed 

 direction of hair which passes forward in the central line 

 right up the dorsal and cervical regions to the level of the 

 horns, branching out laterally into the side streams of the 

 thorax and neck. There are many other antelopes with 



