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CAPT.  W.  SMEE  ON  THE  MANELESS  LION  OF  GUZERAT. 
generally.  Those  which  pass  from  the  whorl  downwards  and  backwards  have  the  usual 
direction  over  the  anterior  limbs  and  sides,  and  are  uniformly  short,  close,  and  ad- 
pressed.  Those  which  pass  from  the  whorl  forwards  become  gradually  lengthened,  but 
still  remain  adpressed  on  the  side  of  the  neck ;  along  the  middle  of  the  side  of  the 
neck  they  are  straight  and  directed  forwards,  while  both  the  lower  and  the  upper  ones 
are  curved,  the  former  downwards  and  the  latter  upwards.  The  lower  ones  in  passing 
downwards  are  very  much  elongated,  soft,  and  not  closely  set ;  they  consequently  hang 
loosely  in  silky  tufts  along  the  lower  part  of  the  sides  and  the  whole  under  surface  of 
the  neck.  The  upper  ones,  curved  in  an  upward  direction,  are  somewhat  less  elon- 
gated and  are  much  more  firm  and  closely  set  than  the  lower  ones  ;  along  the  middle 
line  of  the  back  of  the  neck,  where  they  meet  those  of  the  opposite  side,  they  are,  by 
the  resistance  thus  offered,  directed  away  from  the  surface,  and  they  form  in  this  situation 
a  dense  longitudinal  erected  crest,  nearly  four  inches  in  height,  and  extending  from 
before  backwards  through  a  space  of  about  ten  inches  in  length :  the  tips  of  the  hairs 
composing  this  crest  are  generally  curved  backwards,  and  the  crest  itself  is  continued 
posteriorly  into  a  reclining  and  gradually  disappearing  series  of  lengthened  hairs  which 
are  also  directed  backwards.  This  series  is  derived  from  the  gradual  lengthening  of 
the  hairs  directed  upwards  from  the  whorl  on  the  shoulder,  and  from  their  meeting 
with  those  of  the  opposite  side,  and  is  terminated  (at  a  distance  behind  the  whorl  about 
equal  to  that  of  its  commencement  from  the  front  of  the  whorl)  by  another  series  of 
hairs,  reversed  in  their  direction,  which  extends  along  the  middle  line  of  the  back 
from  near  the  shoulders  to  the  loins :  on  the  loins  and  behind  them  the  hairs  of  the 
middle  line  again  resume  their  usual  and  backward  direction.  In  front  the  cervical 
crest  is  continued  forwards  to  the  interspace  between  the  ears,  where  it  is  terminated 
by  the  gradual  running  into  it  of  the  short  hairs  of  the  upper  part  of  the  face,  which 
have  the  usual  backward  direction.  In  front  of  the  ears  and  below  them  tufts  of  loose 
projecting  hairs  form  a  boundary  between  the  face  and  the  neck. 
Such  is  the  fur  on  the  anterior  part  of  the  body  of  the  Guzerat  Lion.  In  the  Lioness 
the  covering  consists  of  short  and  almost  adpressed  hairs,  except  in  front  of  and  below 
the  ears  ;  and  there  is  consequently  only  a  bare  vestige  of  the  cervical  crest,  and  no 
pendent  tufts  exist  beneath  the  neck.  The  whorL remains,  however,  precisely  similar  to 
that  of  the  male,  and  the  direction  of  the  hairs  from  it  corresponds  exactly  in  both  sexes: 
both  too  have  equally  a  reversed  direction  in  the  hairs  of  the  middle  part  of  the  middle 
line  of  the  back.  In  both  there  occur  three  ridges  of  short  erect  hairs  along  the  face, 
one  of  which  is  abbreviated  and  mesial,  being  situated  between  the  anterior  angles  of 
the  eyes,  and  the  two  others  extend  in  a  wavy  form,  one  on  each  side,  from  the  angle 
of  the  eye  to  the  nose. 
In  the  African  Lion  the  hairs  of  the  anterior  part  of  the  body  radiate  also  in  a 
