FELIS LEO
THE LION.
FELIS LEO, Linn. Syst. Nat. (1766) vol. i. p. 60. sp. 1.—Erxl. Syst. Reg. Anim. (1777) p. 500. sp. 1.—Schreb. Saugeth. Th. iii. (1778) p. 376.
tab. xcvii.—Gmel. Syst. Nat. (1788) vol. i. pt. 1, p. 75. sp. 1.—Fisch. Zoogn. tom. iii, (1814) p. 214. sp. 1 —Desm. Nouv. Diet. Hist.
Nat. (1816) vol. vi. p. 81.—Id. Mamm. (1820) p. 217. no. 355, pi. 90. fig. 4, pi. 91. fig. 1.—Cuv, Ossem. Foss. (1825) vol. iv. p. 408.—
Griff. Anim. King. (1827) p. 428. pi.—1Temm. Moil. Mamm. (1827) vol. i. p. S I ,—Less, Man. Mamm. (1827) p. 181. sp. 4 8 1— Fisch.
Syn; Mamm. (1829) p. 196. sp. 1.—Smuts, Dissert: Zbol. (1832) p. 25.—Smee, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1833) p. 165.—Harris, S. Afr. 8vo (1838),
App. p.. # 1—Blainv. O s tM . (1839-64) vol. ii. Atl. pis. i., v;, v i., xL, xiv.—Keyserl. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. (1840) p. 60.—Harris,
Game & Wild Anim. S. Africa, (1840) pi. xxi.—Less. Nouv. Tab. .Regn.. Anim. (1842) p. 49. sp. 511.—Gray, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus.
¡(1843) p. 39.—Jard. Nat. Libr. vol. xvi. pis. 1, 2, 3.—Hutton, Journ. A siat. Soc, Beng. (1845) p. 340. sp. 3.—Lacep. M6nag. Mus. Hist.
Nat. pis.—Gerv. Hist. Nat. Mamm. (1855) p. 78, pi. xxx.—Loche, Cat. Mamm. Alg6r. (1858) p. 7 —Bartl. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1861)
p. 140.—Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1863) p. 182. sp. ! f j | | | Proc. Zool. Soc. (1864) pp. 100, 160.—Kirk, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1864) p. 632.
Tristr. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1866) p. 910.—Jerd. Mamm. Ind. (1867) p. 91. sp. 103.
THE LION, Penn. Hist. Quad. (17 9 3 ) p. 274.
LE LION DE BARBARIE, F. Cuv. & St.-IIil. Hist. Nat. Mamm. (1819) pis. 114, 115, l i e ;—Temm. Mon. Mamm. (1817) vol. i. p. 84, var. a.
LE LION DE SENEGAL, F. Cuv. Hist. Nat. Mamm. (1819) pi. 117.—Desm. Mamm. (1820) p. 218, var. a.—Temm. Mon. Mamm. (1827) vol. i.
p. .85. var. i.
LION D’ARABIE, Desm. Mamm. (1820) p. 218. var. | |
LE LION DE PERSE, Temm. Mon. Mamm.,(1827) vol. i. p. 86. var. e.
FELIS BARBARUS, var. «, Fiscb. Syn. Mamm. (1829) p, 197.—Less. Nouv. Tab. Regn. Anim. (18 4 2 ) p. 49. var. A.
FELIS SENEGALENSIS, Fisch. Syn. Mamm. (1829) p. 197. var. /3.—Less. Nouv. Tab. Regn. Anim. (1842) p. 49. var. B.
FELIS PERSICUS, Fisch. Syn. Mamm. (1829) p. 197, var. y —Less. Nouv. Tab. Rfcgn. Anim. (1842) p. 49. var. D.
FELIS I-1YBRIDUS, Fisch. Syn. Mamm. (1829) p. 197. var. 5.—Less. Nouv. Tab. Regn. Anim. (1842) p. 49. var. G.
FELIS LEO GOOJRATENSIS, Smee, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1833) vol. i. pi. 24. p. 165.
LEO GAMBIANUS, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus. (1842) p. 40.
FELIS GOOGRATTENSIS, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus. (1842) p. 40.
LE LION, Tchihatcheff, Asie Min. (1856) p. 603.
TIGRIS LEO, Severtz. Rev. Mag. Zool. (1858) p. 388.
LEO NOBIL1S, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1867) p. 2 6 3 .-Id . Cat. Carn. Mamm. (1869) p. 9.
LEO BARBARUS, Fitzin. Sitzgsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Iviii. (1868) p. 432.
LEO CAPENSIS, id. ibid. p. 436.
LEO SENEGALENSIS, id, ibid. p. 438-
LEO GUZERATENSIS, id. ibid. p. 443.
H a b . South Asia and Africa, and formerly (within historic times) the south-east of Europe. W ith in the present century
distributed over much of Central, West, and North-west India, but now confined in that country to the
peninsula of Guzerat, unless a last remnant still maintains a lingering existence in the jungles bordering the Sind
river in Bundelkund—which I now consider doubtful. Eastward of the north-west provinces of the Bengal
Presidency the Lion has not been observed in any part of Asia (Blyth).
ar back as the Miocene period, earlier than which no species of true Fdis has yet been discovered, the Lion, as he
,w known to us, was a dweller on the earth; for although it is still disputed by some, yet it is most probable that
prehistoric Felis spelxa was the same as the Lion of the present day. FeUs spelxa resembled the existing Lion m
. the nasal processes of the maxillary bones extending as far back as the fronto-nasal articulation; and these were