186 



4. Cuon dukhunensis. (Dhole.) 



B.M. 



Skull — nose slender, elongate ; nasal bones the same length. 

 Forehead much raised above the nose-line. 



Canis dukliimensis or Kolsum, Sykes, P. Z. S. 



Cuon dukliimensis, Grai/, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 37 ; P. Z. S. 18U8, 



p. 500; Gerrnrd, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. p. 81. 

 Canis dliola, Gray, Griff. A. K. 



Canis familiaris, var., Elliot, Madras Journ. x. p. 100. 

 Wild Dog or Dhole, Williamson, Wild Sports. 

 ? Dhole, Wooler. 



Hah. India; Deccan (Sykes, B.M.). 



The skull, in the British Museum, from Col. Sykes is of a young 

 specimen changing its milk-teeth. There is a second skull in the 

 Museum (158 h), received from the Zoological Society under the 

 name of Canis duJchunensis ; but it appears to be rather the skull of 

 C. jprimcevus. 



Length from nose to occipital condyle 



of nose from front of orbits ... 2 9 



of lower jaw 5 4 



Width of brain -case, over ears 2 6 2 7 



of forehead between orbits ... 1 4 1 6 



of nose at preorbital foramen .16 19 



at back of zygomatic arches ... 4 1 4 3 



Height of jaw at front of orbit 3 3 3 3 



All adult but 162 a 



C. pri- 

 mainis. 



158 c. 

 in. lin. 



6 9 



C.al- 

 pinus. 



161a. 

 in. lin. 



7 

 2 11 



C. sumairensis. 



160 a. 

 in. lin. 



6 3 

 2 7 

 4 11 



2 4 

 1 3 



1 5^ 



3 8 



2 11 



160 e. 

 in. lin. 



6 3 



2 8 



5 2 



2 4 

 1 24 

 1 64 



3 11 

 3 3 



C. dukhu- 

 nensis. 



162 a. 

 in. lin. 



6 6 



3 



4 10 



2 2 

 1 1 



1 5 



3 6 



2 11 



4. LUPUS. (Wolf.) 



Head moderate, elongate ; nose moderate, tapering. Upper pre- 

 molars slightly separated ; the upper flesh-tooth in the same line as 

 the other grinders. 



Lupus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 501. 



1. Lupus vulgaris. (European Wolf.) 



B.M. 



Canis lupus, Linn. Fauna Suecica, p. 3 ; Syst. Nat. i. p. 58 ; Gerrard, 



Cat. of Bones of Mamm. p. 84. 

 Lupus Vulgaris, Brisson, R. A. p. 2.35 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 501. 

 Lupus sylvestris, Aldrov. Digit, p. 173, fig 

 Wolf, Pennayit. 



Loup, Bufo7i, H. N. vii. p. 39, t. 3 (skidl). 

 Loup d'Eiu-ope (C. lupus), Blainr. Osteoyr. t. 3 (skeleton), t. 6 



(skull). 



Hah. Europe, France {B.M.). 



