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Description. " Hoary fulvous or dirty reddish- white, some of the 

 hairs tipped black, which gives it a grizzled appearance ; somewhat 

 reddish on the face and limbs, the latter paler than the body : lower 

 parts dingy-white ; tail thinly bushy, slightly black tipped. Ears 

 rather small. 



Length of one, head and body, 37 inches ; tail 17 ; height at the 

 shoulder 26 inches. 



Elliot and Horsfield have stated that they did not consider the 

 Indian wolf specifically distinct from the European wolf, but Blyth 

 gives it as his opinion that it is so. " The Society's Museum now 

 contains good and characteristic examples of the skulls of the 

 European, Indian and Tibetan wolves, C. lupus, pallipes and 

 lainger and the specific distinctness appears to be well marked. 

 The European is the largest of the three, with proportionally much 

 larger and more powerful teeth, and the orbital process of the 

 frontal bone is much less developed than in the others. The 

 Indian and Tibetan wolves are more affined to each other than 

 either is to the European one." 



This wolf is found throughout the whole of India, rare in wooded 

 districts, and most abundant in open country." 



No. 35, Page 51. Cuon Rutilans. 

 The Wild Dog. 



I have already at pages 52 and .53, given Mr. Hodgson and 

 Jerdon's descriptions of this animal. Since those notes were 

 written, my friend Hawkeye, in the following admirable letter to 

 the South of India Observer, published 7th of January 1 869, thus 

 tells us more of the habits of wild dogs than many other sportmen 

 know. 



OUR POACHERS. THE WILD DOG. 



" We now come to the last on my list of poachers, and as 

 " beforesaid, not the least by any means, for truly the wild dog is 

 " not only a most formidable depredator, but decidedly the most 

 " destructive of all others to game of every description. As a dog 

 " he is remarkably handsome, and as fine a specimen of the canine 



