54 
Africa (vide Earth's Travels, I, 482 ; V, 971, 270). Wherever found, the 
species appears to be subject to much individual variation of coloring- 
of mane and of general aspect.* 
The Lion was extirpated in Hurriana, about 1824. A female was 
killed at Rhyli, in the Dumaoh district, Sagur and Nerbudda terri- 
tories, so late as in the cold season of 1847-48; and about the same 
time a few still remained in the vallc}' of the Sinde River in Kotah, 
Central India. The species would appear to be now exterminated in 
that district. 
A. Skeleton of an adult male, from Algeria ; 
received from Mr. Bartlett (1849). The skin of 
the same individual was formerly mounted in the 
museum ; but having been originally prepared 
with brine, which could not be sufficiently ex- 
tracted, the salt deliquesced so much during succes- 
sive rainy seasons, that the skin became completely 
destroyed in six or seven years, f 
172. F. TIGRIS, L. (F. Cuv. 3Iamm. Lith. I, t. 49 ; Bennett, 
Tower Menag, f.) 
Syn. Tigris regalis. Gray. 
Sher, H. ; Bdgh, B. ; Puttite Weigh 
(' Striped Tiger'), Mahr. ; Rimau or 
Hariman, Malay ; Macharii J av. (Hors- 
field). 
Hab. India generally, extending to the most elevated 
forests of the Himalaya ; but not Ceylon. 
Peculiar to Asia and its archipelago, under 
very different climatal conditions ; unknown 
in high Central Asia, but inhabiting so high 
* Since the above was written, I have seen Mr. P, L. Sclater's ' Guide to the 
London Zoological Gardens', August 1859. The Secretary of the Zoological 
Society remarks that — " The Lion is subject to great individual variation, in 
size, color, and expression ; so that it is difficult to determine whether the 
Lion of Asia reaUy diifers more from the Lion of South Africa than the Lion 
of South Africa from that of Ashantee, Barbary, or Nubia, or than individuals 
of any of these races differ from each other. It was alleged some time ago that 
the Asiatic Lion was maneless. But the Guzer^t Lion presented by the Eaja of 
J unaghiu", through Sh Erskine Perry and Colonel Jacob, which lived in the 
menagerie from 1854 to 1857, was as thoroughly maned as the Nubian Lion, of 
which the Society has a fine seven-year- old specimen. The Babylonian Lion, 
presented by Mr. Alderman Finnis in 1856, is now more fully maned in pro- 
portion to his age than the Cape Lion next to him. In coloiu Lions vary from 
deep red chesnut-brown to grey, so silvery as to have given rise to the belief 
that a race of white Lions exists in South Africa. The coloirr of the mane 
varies equally." 
t The skull of a Lioness presented by the Marquis of Hastings, as noticed 
in As, Hes, XIII, Jj)p. XVI, is not now in the museum. 
