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it is at other times, wliich indicates danger being near, particularly as 

 whenever that cry is heard the voice of no other jackal is, nor is that 

 particular call ever heard in any part of the country where there are not 

 large beasts of prey. Pheall, I believe, was the original, and is now the 

 usual name, from its resembling the cry they make ; but they are better 

 known in Tlamghur by the name Phinkar, which means crier — pro~ 

 claimer — or warner." Mr. Blyth records that, " some time ago I heard 

 a pariah dog, upon sniffing the collection of live tigers, before referred to, 

 set up the most extraordinary cry I have ever heard uttered by a dog, 

 and which I cannot pretend to record more intelligibly, but it was 

 doubtless an analogous note to the Pheall cry of the jackal." I have 

 often heai'd this peculiar cry, and seen a jackal following a tiger in 

 various parts of the country ; and I have already noted my turning a 

 jackal out of the same bush as a cheeta, 



A horn is supposed by the natives in the same parts of India to grow 

 on the head of some jackals, which is of great reputed virtue, ensuring 

 l^rosperity to its possessor. The same idea is prevalent in Ceylon. 



The Jackal is found over a great part of Asia, in Southern Europe, 

 and in Northern Africa. 



There are several allied species of small or moderate size in Africa and 

 part of Asia. 



The domestic dog belongs to this division, but his origin is lost in 

 obscurity, audit is probable that several species of wolf and other animals 

 may have contributed to form this valuable animal. Now and then very 

 jackal-like dogs may be seen about villages, but whether these are hybrids 

 or simply a reversion to one of the original types, it is impossible to say. 

 In India it is a well-known fact that the various breeds of English dogs, 

 if bred in the plains, have a tendency to change towards the pariah dog, 

 the muzzle of the bull-dog, as well as his limbs, lengthening sensibly in 

 even two generations. 



The next animal, though called a dog, diil'ers in its dentition so 

 remarkably that it has been made the type of a distiiict genus. 



Gen. CuON, Hodgson. 



C/m)'. — General structure and dentition of Canis, but the molars only 



6 G 



- — - ; the second tubercular behind the flesh-tooth in the lower jaw being 

 6 — 



deficient ; skull more uniformly arched than in dogs ; jaws shorter and 



