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ticularly partial to dog as an article of diet, yet in confinement it will 
attach itself to its domesticated canine companions, and interbreed with 
them. A writer in the Judia Sporting Review, vol. vi. of 1847, page 
252, quoted by McMaster, says he received from Dr. Jameson, Super- 
intendent of the Botanical Gardens at Saharunpore, a hybrid, the 
produce of a tame female wolf and a pointer dog. This hybrid died 
when twenty months old, and is said to have been mild and gentle ; its 
howl seems to have had more of the bark in it than the cry of the 
hybrid jackal, and to have been more dog-like. “ It exactly resembled 
the coarse black pariah to be seen about Loodhiana and Ferozepore,” 
the black colour doubtless coming from the pointer sire. As General 
McMaster remarks, it would be interesting to know what the colours of 
the rest of the litter were. Wolves do, I think, get light-coloured with 
great age. JI remember once having one brought into my camp for the 
usual reward by a couple of small boys, the elder not more than ten or 
twelve years of age, I should think. The beast was old and emaciated, 
and very light coloured, and, doubtless impelled by hunger, attacked the 
children, as they were herding cattle, with a view to dining off them ; 
but the elder boy had a small axe, such as is commonly carried by the 
Gonds, and, manfully standing his ground, split the wolf's skull with a 
blow—a feat of which he was justly proud. 
Sir Walter Elliot’s description of the manner in which wolves hunt 
has been quoted by Jerdon and others, but, as it is interesting, I 
reproduce it here :— 
“The wolves of the southern Mahratta country generally hunt in 
packs, and I have seen them in full chase after the goat antelope 
Gazella Arabica (Lennettii?), They likewise steal round the herd of 
Antilope cervicapra and conceal themselves on different sides till an 
epportunity offers of seizing one of them unawares as they approach, 
while grazing, to one or other of their hidden assailants. On one 
occasion three wolves were seen to chase a herd of gazelle across a 
ravine in which two others were lying in wait. They succeeded in 
seizing a female gazelle, which was taken from them. They have 
frequently been seen to course, and run down hares and foxes ; and it is 
a common belief of the ryots that in the open plains, where there is no 
cover or concealment, they scrape a hole in the earth, in which one of 
the pack lies down and remains hid, while the others drive the herd of 
antelope over him. Their chief prey, however, is sheep; and the 
shepherds say that part of the pack attack, and keep the dogs in play, 
while others carry off their prey, and that, if pursued, they follow the 
same plan, part turning and checking the dogs, while the rest drag away 
the carcase, till they evade pursuit. Instances are not uncommon of 
their attacking man. In 1824 upwards of thirty children were devoured 
by wolves in one pergunnah alone, Sometimes a large wolf is seen 
