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white stripe on either side of the neck from the ear to the shoulder ; 
tail rufous or brown, with the terminal half rufous’’ (/erdon). Gray’s 
account is: “black grizzled hairs with a very broad white sub-terminal 
ring ; a white streak on the side of the neck; legs and feet black ; tail 
ashy red at the end.” 
S1ze.—Head and body, 18 inches ; tail, rz inches. . 
Somewhat aquatic in its habits, living on frogs and crabs. It has 
two anal glands, from which it can squirt a foetid secretion. It is the 
only mungoose mentioned in Blyth’s ‘ Catalogue of the Mammals of 
Burmah,’ but there are at least two more, and probably some of the 
Malayan species are yet to be found in Tenasserim, 
CYNOIDEA. 
This is the next and last section in the order I have adopted, of the 
land Carnivora, and contains the typical family Camis. All the animals 
that we shall have to deal with might and would be by some authors 
brought into this one genus, the only others recognised by them being 
the two African genera, AZegalotis and Lycaon, the long-eared fox and 
the hyzena-dog, and the /Vyctereutes or racoon-dog of Northern China 
and Amoorland. But although all our Indian species might be treated 
of under the one genus Cavs, it will be better to keep to the separation 
adopted by Jerdon, and classify the wolves and jackals under Canis, 
and the foxes under Vulpes. As regards the wild dog of India, its 
dentition might warrant its being placed in a separate genus, but after 
all the name chosen for it is but merely a difference in sound, the two 
being the same thing in Latin and Greek. 
But although this group contains the smallest number of forms, the 
varieties of the domestic dog are endless, and no part of the world is 
without a species of the genus, except certain islands, such as the 
West Indies, Madagascar, the Polynesian isles, New Zealand and 
the Malayan archipelago ; in these territories there is no indigenous. 
dog. I speak of dogs in its broad sense of Canzs, including wolves. 
and foxes. 
The proper position of the Cyzozdea should be between the bears and 
the cats, as in their dentition they approximate to the former, and in 
their digitigrade character to the latter; but, with a view to make this 
work concurrent with that of Jerdon’s, I have accepted the position 
assigned by him, though it be a little out of place. 
The general form of the skeleton of a dog resembles that of a feline, 
though the limbs may be to a certain extent longer ; they also walk on 
the tips of their toes, but their claws are not retractile, although the 
