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the strikingly unusual coloration of this Dog. It is a small 
animal, with numerous long white hairs dorsally. The face, 
chest, and much of the belly are black. Its aspect distinctly 
recalls that of a Raccoon,’ especially in the black patches below 
Fre. 206.—Raccoon-like Dog. Nyctereutes procyonides. x &. 
the eyes, whence of course the scientific name and the pseudo- 
vernacular “ Raccoon-like Dog.” It inhabits China and Japan. 
As to structure, there is hardly anything that justifies its ex- 
clusion from the genus Canis. Garrod, however, mentions the 
unusually large size of the Spigelian lobe of the liver. 
Wortman and Malkens” have instituted a genus Nothocyon for 
Dr. Mivart’s species C. wrostictus® and C. parvidens, which are 
both South American forms. 
The genus Ofocyon contains but one species, O. megalotis, an 
African species, ranging pretty widely in that continent (from 
the Cape to Somaliland, in sandy districts), and sometimes con- 
fused with the Fennec on account of its long ears. Its prin- 
cipal structural difference from other Dogs is that there is an 
additional molar in each jaw, the molar formula being thus M # 
or even ~ Moreover the carnassial- teeth are not so pro- 
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nounced, and Professor Huxley laid especial stress upon the 
1 The relationship between the Canidae and the Procyonidae must not be lost 
sight of in considering thrs point of external likeness. 
2 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. xii. 1900, p. 109. 
3 Proc. Zool. Soc. t890, p. 98. 
