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to seek his prey singly ; these are called Won-/ola, and are reckoned 
particularly fierce.” , 
McMaster corroborates the account of wolves hiding themselves by 
scratching holes in the ground whilst antelope were quietly walking up 
to the ambush; and there is a most amusing account given by Major 
Lloyd, in his ‘Scandinavian Adventures,’ of the wiles of a tame wolf in 
her efforts to get young pigs within her reach. He says: ‘When she 
saw a pig in the vicinity of her kennel, she evidently, with the purpose of 
putting him off his guard, would throw herself on her side or back, wag 
her tail most lovingly, and look innocence personified ; and this amicable 
demeanour would continue until the grunter was beguiled within reach 
of her tether, when, in the twinkling of an eye, ‘ Richard was himself 
again !’” Major Lloyd asserts that but for this pexchant for his neigh- 
bours’ pigs he-would have trained this wolf as a pointer. 
Jerdon states that he has known wolves turn on dogs that were 
running at their heels, and pursue them smartly till close up to his 
horse. He adds: “A wolf once joined with my greyhounds in pursuit 
of a fox, which was luckily killed almost immediately afterwards, or the 
wolf might have seized one of the dogs instead of the fox. He sat 
down on his haunches, about sixty yards off, whilst the dogs were 
worrying the fox, looking on with great apparent interest, and was with 
difficulty driven away.” 
No. 246. CANIS LANIGER (LUPUS CHANCO 0f Gray). 
The Thibetan Wolf. 
Native NamMes.—Chanko, Changu. 
Hapirat.—Thibet. 
Description.—Yellowish-grey, with long soft hairs (Kinloch), Long 
sharp face, elevated brows, broad head, large pointed ears, thick woolly 
pelage, and very full brush of medial length ; above dull earth-brown ; 
below, with the entire face and limbs, yellowish-white ; no marks on 
limbs ; tail concolourous with the body, that is brown above and 
yellowish below, and no dark tip (Hodgson). 
SizE.—Length, 4 feet ; tail, 20 inches ; height, 30 inches. 
Hodgson says this animal is common all over Thibet, and is a terrible 
depredator among the flocks, or, as Kinloch writes: ‘ apparently pre- 
ferring the slaughter of tame animals to the harder task of circum- 
venting wild ones.” The great Bhotea mastiff is chiefly employed to 
guard against it. According to Hodgson the chanko has a long, 
sharp face, with the muzzle or nude space round the nostrils produced 
considerably beyond the teeth, and furnished with an unusually large 
lateral process, by which the nostrils are much overshadowed sideways 
and nearly closed, ‘The eye is small and placed nearer to the ear than 
