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Fam. FELID^. 
Genus Felis, L. 
(The first great division of Cats has constantly a more 
robustly formed skeleton ; ear-conch short and obtuse ; 
black, with a pale central spot externally). 
171. F. LEO, L. (Bennett's ' Tower Menagerie,' fig. XXIV, 
from a Hurriana specimen).^' 
Syn. Leo harbarus, capensis, senegalensis, gambianus^ 
persicus, Sfc, auctorum : (F. Cuvier, Mamm. 
Lith. I, t. 45, 46, 47, 48). 
F, leo goojrattensis, Smee. 
Singha, H. : Shingdl, B. ; Ontid Bdgh 
(* Camel Tiger'), Kattyawar. 
Hab. Africa: Arabia, Mesopotamia, Persia ; former- 
ly Syria, Greece, Macedonia ; j and (with- 
in the present century) the JSF. W. parts 
of Hindustan, from Buhawalpur and Sindh 
to at least the Jumna (about Delhi), — • 
southward as far as Khandeish, and in Cen- 
tral India the Sagur and Nerbudda terri- 
tories, Bundelkund, and so far west as 
Palamow ; but at present confined in India 
to the province of Kattyawar, in Guzerat. 
There is reason to believe that the Lion formerly inha- 
bited the plains of Upper India generally, if not also the 
table-land of the peninsula. In the early part of the six- 
teenth century, Baber mentions that the wild Elephant, the 
Rhinoceros, the wild Buffalo, and the Lion inhabited the 
Benares district. 
Memarks. — The Guzerat Lion is fully maned, and not a nearly 
. maneless variety, as stated by Captain Smee ; whose figure represents 
• an immatui'e animal. Maneless individuals, however, whether or not 
constituting a particular race, occur also in Mesopotamia, and even in 
* Erroneously described as a Bengal specimen. 
t The great Felis of the British cave deposits is now believed to be no other 
than F. leo. Vide Asie Ilineure, pt. II, by P. dc TchihatchefF, for details of the 
history of the Lion in that region. 
