. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. : 505 south as tte Gulf of Lepanto and the Isthmus of Corinth, having as its western boundarythe Eiver Potamo and the Pindus mountains. The -whole of the evidence rekting to the existence of Lions in Europe, and to their retreat from that continent shortly before the commencement of the Christian era, has been collected in the article on " Fdis sptlmi"' in Boyd Dawldns and Sandford's British Pleisto- cene Mammalia (1S68). Fossil remains attest a still wider range, as it is shown in the same work that there
. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. : 505 south as tte Gulf of Lepanto and the Isthmus of Corinth, having as its western boundarythe Eiver Potamo and the Pindus mountains. The -whole of the evidence rekting to the existence of Lions in Europe, and to their retreat from that continent shortly before the commencement of the Christian era, has been collected in the article on " Fdis sptlmi"' in Boyd Dawldns and Sandford's British Pleisto- cene Mammalia (1S68). Fossil remains attest a still wider range, as it is shown in the same work that there is absolutelv no osteologi- %i,\M\!iii. Fig. â ^24.âLion and Liones?. afrer a drawing by Wolf in KllioTs Monograph of the Ft?uur. cal or dental character by which the well-known Cave Lion {F. .<pd(ca), so abundantly found in cave-deposits of the Pleistocene age in Western Etirope. can be distinguished from the existing F. ho. At the present day the Lion is found in localities suitable to its habits, and where not exterminated (as it probably was in Europe) by the encroachments of man, throughout Africa from Algeria to the Cape Colony, and in Mesopotamia, Persia, and some parts of the north-west of Lidia. According to Blanford,^ Lions are still very numerous in the reedy swamps bordering the Tigris and Euphrates, and also occur on the west flanks of the Zagros moun- tains and the oak-clad ranges near Shii-az, to which thev are 1 Zoology and Gtology oj Zastem Persia (lS7ti ,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, A. and C. Black
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