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powers of smell than by the eye, and generally overcoming its ąuarry 

 by dint of force and perseverance. In hunting it barks likę a hound ; 

 bul its bark is peculiar, and equally unlike that of the cultivated 

 breeds of Dogs and the strains of the Jackal and the Fox. 



Adults in captivity made no approach tovvards domestication ; but 

 a young one, vvhich Mr. Hodgson obtained vvhen it was net more than 

 a month old, became sensible to caresses ; distinguished the dogs of 

 its own kennel from others, as well as its keeper from strangers ; 

 and in its vvhole conduct manifested to the fuU as much intelligence 

 as any of his spoiting dogs of the šame age. 



It appears by a notice in the 'Journal of the Asiatic Society of Cal- 

 cutta,' that Mr. Hodgson's paper on the Būdnsū has been read before 

 that body. It is conseąuently to be expected that itwill be published 

 in the ' Asiatic Researches.' 



