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ring, others basally white and broadly tipped with rufescent, the 

 interspace being white. 



Length. — Of head and body (stuffed specimen) 19^ inches; tail 17^*; 

 ear obliquely across, 1"25; from orifice •93*'; tarsus to tip of claw 

 •3*; length of skull ^12", across zygomatic arches ]*69*', length 

 of brain case VQd", width of ditto •93", contraction behind orbit "SG*. 

 Lower jaw, from the angle to the anterior alveolar margin, 2" I*; orbit 

 complete behind ; sagittal crest linear ; skull solid, sutures not apparent. 

 Super-occipital crest terminates in a strong ridge 0'18* high, continued 

 down to the bullge auditorise. 



A single specimen of this large species was obtained at Kotree. 

 It is quite unlike any of the other species, both in colour and size, and 

 the marked cranial characters appear to me to be sufficient to form a 

 new species. I therefore provisionally name it after Dr. J. Anderson, 

 Superintendent of the Indian Museum, who has very materially assisted 

 me in this work. 



Family 10, CANID^,— The Dog Tribe. 

 Tubercular grinders two on each side of the upper and lower jaws. 

 False grinders 2 or 3 on each side of each jaw; molars «— =, more rarely 



ffZJj °^ yllR' '^°®^ ^ — ^ straight, free, with worn-tipped claws, the 

 front inner toe raised. Upper flesh tooth with one inner tubercle, 

 lower with its posterior portion tuberculous. 



Canis aureus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, p. 59; Jerd. Mam. Ind., p. 136; 

 Gray, Cat. Mam. Br. hid., 189; Murray, HdhJc.,Zool., Sfc, Sind. TholuJc 

 of the Mekranees ; Kola, Hind ; Giddur, Sind. — The Jackal. 



Colour of fur variable. During winter, when in good fur, the muzzle 

 is reddish or rufescent brown with a black patch in the centre, running 

 up between and on the outside of the eyes ; there is also a narrow dark 

 streak running up from the hind edge of the eye to just below the 

 ears, where there is a dense patch of rufescent brown hairs. The 

 long moustachial hairs, the groups over the eyes, sides of face and behind 

 the chin are black. The ears outside are pale rufous at the base, a 

 little darker above near the tip and sprinkled with black hairs. There 

 is also a patch of long greyish white hairs in the anterior upper 

 corner of the ear ; the inside of the ear is edged for about an inch all 

 round with white hairs, and the extreme margins with very pal© 

 isabelline. The forehead is rufescent brown with some dark hairs in- 

 termixed. The chin is dark brown, except a very small patch, which is 

 white just behind its anterior edge. The upper lip greyish white or 

 white, continued behi)id and spreading behind the dark chin patch on 

 the throat ; sides of the neck and a collar filling up the interspace 

 between the white of the throat and the chest, rufescent brown, with 

 black hairs intermixed; neck above, back and sides of the body 

 grizzled with black and white or rufescent hairs, and in all good speci- 

 mens there is a saddle-shaped patch of black on the back. There is 

 also a distinct black patch on the root of the tail ; rest of the tail 



