Description
Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo) in a 1898 picture.
Date 1898
Source Animate creation; popular edition of our living world, a natural history. (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=180034&imageID=416797&word=Barbary%20Lion&s=1¬word=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=2&num=0&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=2#)
Author Joseph Bassett Holder, 1824-1888 -- Editor / Wood, J. G. (John George Wood), 1827-1889 -- Author
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BarbaryLionB1898bw.jpg

The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. The commonly used term African lion collectively denotes the several subspecies in Africa. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in sub-Saharan Africa and in India (where an endangered remnant population resides in Gir Forest National Park).