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supposed. In some notes on the " Hybrid races produced between 

 " the dog and some of the wild canines," signed " Curricle" and 

 published at page 252, volume VI, of the Indian Sporting Review, 

 September to December 1 847, the writer mentions, that he received 

 from Dr. Jameson, Superintendent of the Botanical Garden at Saha- 

 runpore, a hybrid, the produce of a tame female wolf which had 

 bred with a pointer dog. This hybrid died when 20 months old, 

 is said to have been mild and gentle, its howl to have had more of 

 the bark in it, than the cry of the hybrid jackal, and to have had a 

 much closer resemblance to the dog in appearance and disposition 

 than the hybrid jackal presented, and judging from this cross that 

 writer considered the wolf to be much more nearly allied to the dog 

 than is the jackal. 



He also mentions some further experiments in which he succeed- 

 ed in obtaining hybrids as follows : 



" First cross Hybrid between a female jackal, and Scotch terrier 

 "dog, or half-jackal and half-dog. Second cross Between the 

 " hybrid 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 composing 

 the litter, of which this last was one, two were fawn-colored 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. It is as " Curricle," remarks " a point of some 

 " interest to note, that the ears, in this the third removed from the 

 "jackal are still erect and pointed." This cross, he remarks, 

 appeared 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, color, yellow 

 fawn, but her gait and gallop were precisely that of the jackal. 



" Curricle" remarks further that the half-wolf just mentioned 

 " except in a few peculiarities which would escape most observers, 

 " exactly resembled the coarse black pariah to be seen about 

 " Loodiana and Ferozepore." In this instance the black color 

 doubtless came from the pointer sire. It would be interesting to 

 know what the colors of the rest of the litter were. The creature, 



