184 CANID^. 



Cuon, Iloihjson ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1808, p. 498. 



The small hinder tubercular grinders of the upper and lower jaw 

 deficient. (See Blainv. Osteogr. t. 9?) 



1. Cuon primsevus. (Buansixah.) B.M. 



Skull — nose short, broad, swollen ; forehead broad, convex, gra- 

 dually shelving from the nose-line ; nasals produced behind the 

 hinder upper edge of the maxillaries. 



Canis primaevus, Hadfison, P. Z. S. 1833, p. Ill ; Blainv. Osteogr. 



Canis, p. 49, t. 8 (skiiU), t. 9 (teeth) ; Laur. Sf Bazin, Ann. iTAnut. 



et Phys. i. t. 8. f. 4 (skull) ; Hodgson, Trans. Asiat. Soc. , t. ; 



Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 57 ;' P. Z. S. 1868, p. 498. 

 Cuon prima3vus, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. B. M. p. 81. 

 Canis himalayauus, Lesson. 



Hah. Nepal {Hodgson, B.M.) ; Cashmere {Abbott). 



2. Cuon alpinus. B.M. 



Canis alpinus, Pallas, Zooc/r. Rosso- Asiat. i. p. 34 ; Van der Hoeven, 

 Kais. Ahad. d. Wiss. vli. 1. 17 (teeth) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 

 p. 57 ; Schrenck, Amurland, p. 48. 



Cuon alpinus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 498 ; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of 

 Mamm. B. M. p. 81. 



Hob. Siberia, Altai Mountains {Brandt) (skull, B. M.). 

 Skull very like that of the preceding species, if diiferent. 



3. Cuon sumatrensis. B.M. 



Skull — nose short, broad, swollen, slightly raised above the nose- 

 hne ; nasals produced behind the hinder upper edge of the maxil- 

 laries. 



Canis (faniiliaris, var.) sumatrensis, JIardwicke, Linn. Trans, xiii. 



p. 235, t. 25 ; Bajies, Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 249. 

 Canis sumatrensis, P. Cur. Diet. d'H. N. viii. p. 557. 

 Cuon sumatrensis, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. B. M. ^. SI; 



Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 498, 499 (skull). 



Hab. Sumatra {B.M.) ; Malacca {Carlton, B.M.) ; Java {Les- 

 chenatdt, B.M.). 



The skull figured by De BlainviUe (Oste'ogr. t. 8) is that of a 

 domestic Dog, perhaps from Java. The skull in the British Mu- 

 seum is very like that of the Cuon alpinus. A skeleton sent from 

 Paris, and marked " Canis javanicus" (160 e), is a Cuon; and the 

 skull is so like that of C^ioti sumatrensis that I cannot discover any 

 diiference between them. I suppose this is the animal named Canis 

 rutilans by Boie, and C. liodophyla.v, C. Iwdophilax, and C. liip- 

 jjophyla.v by Temminck in the ' Fauna Japonica,' called Jamainu, 

 said to have small, erect ears, and to be of the form and size of a 

 Wolf. 



