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horseman, but I have never seen this done, although I have known 

 several instances of both jackals and foxes having been ridden down 

 by horsemen after the dogs had been thrown cut, but the animals 

 had been more or less tired previously. One morning, seeing a 

 jackal limping about on three legs, I galloped after him expecting 

 that he would become an easy prey. He soon put his fourth leg 

 down however and did not give me a chance of closing with him. 

 It must be explained that I was then riding a stout Persian, neither 

 fast nor clever. 



Apropos of this I see that Shaw in his Zoology published in 

 1800, writes as follows regarding the hya?na ; the extract should 

 have been entered in my notes on that animal : 



" A remarkable particularity in the hyaena, but which is some- 

 " times observed in dogs, &c., is, that when it is first dislodged from 

 " cover, or obliged to run, it always appears lame for a consider- 

 " able space, and that sometimes to such a degree, according to Mr. 

 " Bruce, as to make the spectator suppose one of the hind legs to 

 " be broken ; but after running some time, this affection goes off 

 " and he runs swiftly away." 



No- 35- Cuon Rutilans- 



JERDON, No. 137, PAGE 145 ; THS WILD DOG. 



Surely it would be better to have entered this creature as 

 " canis ;" slight distinctions in nomenclature startle and dishearten 

 many men who would otherwise have taken an interest in natural 

 history and afforded information picked up from personal obser- 

 vation. 



My ow r n experience makes me think, that there is only one race 

 of wild dog in India, and that the Burmese animal is identical with 

 it, and that the differences in size and length of hair are only 

 caused by season, and the brushwood the animals have to work 

 through : both varieties have appeared to me about the same size ; 

 females of course being smaller than the males, some were long, 

 light, and lean-looking with short red hair and badly furnished 

 tails, others were brighter colored with long hair and black or dark 



