Description
Full page illustration of book of english adaptions of the fairy tales of India. The removed caption "THE LION AND THE CRANE"
Date 1892
Source Frontispiece of Fairy Tales of India. Jacobs, J. illustrations by John Dickson Batten, copy held by New York Public LIbrary. Obtained from archive.org, where several other scans exist - this one seem clean and neat.
Author John Dickson Batten
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_facing_page_2_of_Indian_Fairy_Tales_(1892).png

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).