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alluded as written by ‘‘ Hawkeye,” and which may be found in the paper 
above mentioned, and also in McMaster’s notes on Jerdon; but I give 
a few extracts :— 
“Generally speaking, however, the wild dog has not been known to be 
the aggressor against mankind ; and, though not displaying much dread 
of man, has hitherto refrained from actual attack, for I have never heard 
of any case proving it otherwise ; at the same time it is well known and 
an established fact that the tiger and leopard are often driven away by 
these dogs. It is uncertain whether they really attack with intent to kill 
either the one or the other, but that they have been repeatedly seen 
following both there is no question. The wild dog in appearance bears 
much similitude to the English fox ; he is however larger, and stands 
some inches higher, and has no white tip to his tail, which, with his 
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muzzle, is perfectly black. The muscular development all over the 
body is extraordinary. One that I shot, when skinned, was a most perfect 
specimen of thews and sinews I ever beheld.” He describes various 
hunts by packs of these dogs, in one of which, witnessed by a brother 
sportsman, the dogs, five in number, in pressing a Sambar stag, spread 
themselves out like a fan, which~he considers a matter of instinct, so 
that in case of a flank movement the outer dogs would have a chance ; 
in this case however the stag kept straight on, and, the ground being 
precipitous, he managed to escape. The evidence produced tends to 
confirm the opinion that the wild dog endeavours to seize the quarry by 
the flanks and tear out the entrails. According to Hodgson the duansu, 
as it is called in Nepal, runs in a long, lobbing canter, unapt at the 
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