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THE SOUTHERN DHOLE. 



CYON JAVANICUS. 



Canis javanicus, Desmarest, Mammalogie, p. a98 (1820) ; F. Cuvier, 



Diet, des Sc. Nat. vol. viii. p. 557. 

 Canis familiaris, xar. sumatrensis, Hardwicke, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. 



p. 235, pi. xxiii. (1822). 

 Canis dukhunensis, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 100; Blyth, Journ. As. 



Soc. Bengal, vol. xi. p. 591. 

 Canis primmvus, Hodgson, Asiatic Res. xviii. pt. 2, p. 221 (1S33), with 



a figure. 

 Canis rutilans, S. Miiller, Verhandelingen Zool. Zoogd. pp. 27, 51 (1839) ; 



Blyth, Catalogue of Mammals and Birds of Burmah, p. 24 ; 



J. A. Wagner, Suppl. to Schreber's Saugthiere, Abth. ii. 



p. 379. 

 Cuon primtEVUS, Hodgson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 152 (1838) ; 



id. Calcutta Journal Nat. Hist. vol. ii. pp. 208, 412; 



Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 514; Cantor, Joarn. Asiat. 



Soc. Bengal, vol. xv. p. 196; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, 



p. 498 ; id. Cat. Carnivorous Mammalia, p. 184 ; Murie, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 715. 

 Cuon rutilans, Blyth, Catalogue of ]\Iammals and Birds of Burmah, p. 37 ; 



Jerdon's Mammals of India, p. 145. 

 Cuon sumatrensis and dukhunensis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, pp. 498 



and 500. 

 Cyon dukhunensis, Blanford, Fauna of British India, Mamm. p. 143. 

 Cyan rutilans, Blanford, ibid. p. 147. 

 Cyon primcevus, Scully, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 202. 

 Cyon javanicus, Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 89. 



Whether there are or are not two distinct species of Cyon south of the 

 Himalayas is a question as to which some distinguished naturahsts 

 differ. We have carefully examined a very large number of skins 

 —with the several skuUs belonging to them— coming from stations 



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