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CAPT.  W.  SMEE  ON  THE  MANELESS  LION  OF  GUZERAT. 
language  a  Leopard;  if  the  side  face  alone  is  seen,  it  is  a  Lion.  Hence,  with  them, 
the  Lions  passant  and  gardant  of  the  arms  of  the  Kings  of  England  would  be  either 
Lions  leoparded,  or  Leopards  maned.  The  omission  of  the  mane,  in  rude  tricking, 
would  indeed  reduce  them  to  Leopards,  and  as  such  they  were  originally  regarded  ;  for 
the  earliest  present  to  a  National  Menagerie  in  England, — that  made  by  the  Emperor 
Frederic  IL  to  Henry  HL, — consisted  of  three  Leopards,  in  allusion,  as  Matthew  Paris 
expressly  states,  to  the  bearing  of  the  royal  shield,  "  in  quo  tres  leopardi  transeuntes 
figurantur."  The  bearing  may,  however,  have  been  intended  to  represent  the  Plinian 
and  heraldic  hybrid  between  the  two  races, — a  being  altogether  imaginary,  and  there- 
fore a  fit  companion  for  the  griffins  and  the  unicorns,  and  the  rest  of  that  marvellous 
and  monstrous  fraternity. 
PLATE  XXIV. 
Felis  Leo  Goojratensis. 
