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jackal and terrier, or quarter jackal and three-quarters dog ; third cross 
between the quarter jackal and terrier, or seven-eighths dog and one- 
eighth jackal. Of the five pups comprising the litter, of which the last 
was one, two were fawn-coloured and very like pariahs, while three 
had the precise livery of the jackal; noses sharp and pointed ; 
ears large and erect; head and muzzle like the jackal. ‘This cross, 
he remarks, appears to have gone back a generation, and to have 
resembled the jackal much more than their mother, whose appearance, 
with the exception of the very sharp muzzle, although she had so 
much jackal blood, was that of a sleek, well-fed pariah dog, colour 
yellow fawn, but her gait and gallop were precisely that of the jackal.”— 
McMaster. 
GENUS CUON. 
Dentition as in restricted Canis, but wanting the second grinder 
behind the flesh-tooth in the lower jaw; the nose is short ; skull arched ; 
the forehead broad, convex, and gradually shelving from the nose line; 
nasals long, produced behind the hinder upper edge of the maxillaries. 
No. 249. CANIS (CUON) RUTILANS. 
The Indian Wild Dog ( Jerdon’s No. 137). 
NatTivE Names.—/ungli-kutta ; Son-kutta ; Ban-kutta, Ram-kutta, 
Hindi; Kolsun, Kolusna, Kolsa and Kolasra, Mahrathi; Reza-kutta, 
Adavi-kutta, Telegu ; Shen-nat, Malabarese ; Eram-naiko, Gondi ; Sakki- 
sarai, at Hyderabad ; Ram-hun in Kashmir ; Siddaki, Thibetan, in La- 
dakh ; Swhu-tum, Lepcha ; Paoho, Bhotea ; Bhaosa, Bhoonsa, Buansu in 
the Himalayas, generally from Simla to Nepal (/erdon); Tao-khwae, 
Burmese ; Assoo-adjakh, Assoo-kikkee, Javanese ; Oesoeng-esang, Sundese ; 
Anzing Utan, Malay ; Hazzee, Thibetan. 
Hasirat.—The whole of India and down the Burmese country to 
the Malayan archipelago, but not in Ceylon, although Jerdon asserts 
that it is common there. I however cannot find any authority for this, 
and both Kellaart and Sir Emerson Tennent affirm that there are no wild 
dogs in Ceylon. 
Description.—General colour bright rusty or red, somewhat paler 
beneath ; ears large and erect, round at the tips; large, hairy-soled feet ; 
very bushy, straight tail, reaching half-way from the hough to the sole, 
with a dark tip. It stands lower in front than behind; and, though 
somewhat resembling a jackal, has an ‘unmistakable canine physiog- 
nomy ; the eye is fuller and better placed, and forehead broader, and 
the muzzle less pointed. 
Sizz.—Head and body, 32 to 36 inches; tail, 16 inches ; height 17 to 
20 inches, ; 
