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SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS FROM THE INDIAN 



MAMMAL SURVEY 



OF THE 



BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



(By R. C. Wkoughton.) 



Part III. 



(^Continued from page 58 of Volume XXVI.) 

 Family IV. — Canid^. 



Blanford arranges the three genera of the Canid^ in a key as 

 follows ; — 



Key to the genera of the Canid^e. 



A. — A frontal sinns present ; postorbital pro- 

 cess smooth and convex above ; tail, 

 including hair at the end, less than 

 half the length of the head and body. 

 a. Seven teeth in lower molar series ... I. Canis. 

 h. Six teeth in lower molar series ... II. CuON. 



B. — No frontal sinns ; postorbital process 

 concave above ; tail more than half 

 the length of the head and body ... III. Vulpes. 



Gen. I. — Ca?^is. 



No. 67. lupus, L, There seems no doubt that 



No. 68. ixdlipe?, Sykes. Hodgson's name of laniger for the 



Thibetan wolf is better than lupms. 



I dealt with this name, and its 



derivation, in 1912 (J. b! N. H. S. 



xxi, p. 837). The absence of any 



No. 69. aureus, L. representative of true aureus makes 



it impossible to deal with this 

 question authoritatively. However, as all the probabilities are in 

 favour of such a course, and no inconvenience is likely to ensue, I 

 decided to treat the Indian jackal under Hodgson's name indiais. 

 More recently, when examiniiag our Indian material in detail, I 

 was confirmed in the adoption of this course, and led to establish a 

 subspecies hola, for the Dekhan jackal, and two species, 7iaria and 

 lanka, for the South Indian and Ceylon forms respectively. (J. B. 

 N. H. S. xxiv, p. 649, 1916). 



