ble increase. But, when brought to the Cape and kept in confinement, with plenty of food and water, their increase is prodigious. There were lately purchased, at Mons. Villet's in Cape AND NEILGHERRY HILLS. 59 Town, a lion and lioness stuffed, who were the parents of forty cubs in the course of four years, and afterwards of twenty, making together sixty from one pair. The progeny are scattered over different parts of the world ; some were sent to Paris, some to Vienna, some are in Calcutta, and two remain at the Cape. When the lion died, he was incautiously skinned near the den whence the lioness could see him, and her af- flicted looks and moaning satisfied the owner that her death, which took place a month after- wards, was owing to her grief for his loss, as stated in the following certificate given when they were purchased from him : " This lion was fifteen years old, and died about two years since of the liver complaint. " The lioness died about six weeks after- wards of grief. I had the lioness about fifteen years, and in that period she had sixty cubs. " She had in the first four years five cubs in a litter, and twice each year. After the fifth year, she had only one litter a year. The names