MEANS OF DEFENCE. 
267 
c Hap. xvii. 
jarful scene ensued ; “ the lion’s mane saved his neck 
(( ar 'd head from being much injured, but the tiger at 
W succeeded in ripping up ids belly, and in a few 
minutes he was dead .” 37 The broad ruff round the 
.oat and chin of the Canadian lynx (Felis Canadensis) 
much longer in the male than in the female ; but 
" bether it serves as a defence I do not know. Male 
8ea -ls are well known to fight desperately together, and 
bbe males of certain kinds {Otaria jubata) 33 have great 
Jjmnes, whilst the females have small ones or none. 
Ibe male baboon of the Capo of Good Hope ( Cynoce - 
Phalus forcarius) has a much longer mane anti larger 
Ca uine teeth than the female ; and the mane probably 
? er Ves as a protection, for on asking the keepers 
111 the Zoological Gardens, without giving them any 
C! bie to my object, whether any of the monkeys espe- 
f aally attacked each other by the nape of the neck, I 
" as answered that this was not the case, excepting with 
|be above baboon. In the Ilamadryas baboon, Eliren- 
e, 'g compares the mane of the adult male to that 
a young lion, whilst in the young of both sexes and 
la the female the mane is almost absent. 
It appeared to me probable that the immense woolly 
r,lur ie of the male American bison, which reaches 
‘brnost to the ground, and is much more developed 
1(1 the males than in the females, served as a pro- 
motion to them in their terrible battles; but an ex- 
perienced hunter told Judge Caton that he had never 
observed anything which favoured this belief. The 
‘Tlie Times,’ Nov. 10th, 1807. In regard to the Canada lynx, 
60 Audubon and Bachman, ‘ Quadrupeds of N. America,’ ISIS, p. 139. 
. Dr. Marie, on Otaria, ‘Proc. Zoolog. Soc.’ 1809, p. 109. Mr. J. A. 
Jkn, iu paper above quoted (p. 75), doubts whether the hair, 
^ v nieh is longer on the neck in the male than in the female, deserves to 
6 called a mane. 
