180 



THE NORTHERN DHOLE. 



CTOy ALPIXUS. 



Cunis aljjtiius, VaWas, Zoograpliia Rosso-Asiatica, vol. i. p. 3 1 (1831); 

 J. A.Wajiiipr,S\i])j)I. to Schrcbcr's Siiugth., Abtli. ii.p. .372; 

 MiddciiiloriT, Ucisc iiusscrstcn Nordcn u. Oston Sibiriens, 

 vol. ii. ])ait ii. ]». 71 (1851); Schremk, Riiscii in Amiir- 

 Laiide, vol. i. ]). 18, pi. ii. (18r)0) ; Haddc, Rcisen ini 

 Siiden von Ost-Sibiricn, vol. i. p. 00 (18()2). 



Cuon alpinus, Gray, Pioc. Zool. Soc. 18G8, p. -198; id. Cat. Carnivorous 

 Mannmdia, p. 181. 



Cyon alpinus, Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 90. 



This large, fine species of Northern Asia can only be separated from 

 C.javanicuson account of the larger size of its second upper molar, and 

 also of its second or ultimate lower molar. 



The two specin)cns preserved in the British Museum are covered 

 with very long and woolly hair, which is white in one specimen, and 

 whitish with a yellow tinge in the other. The former came from 

 Siberia and is the subject of our Plate XLII. ; the other speciuien came 

 from the Altai ^lountains, and our figure representing its dentition 

 was drawn from the skull which was extracted from it. 



We presume that both these specimens display the winter coat of 

 the animal more or less perfectly developed ; for it is described by 

 Pallas and Schrenck as being at other times generally red like a fox, 

 with the back somewhat darker — the hairs being partly white, partly 

 black, and partly red — with the lips, belly, and inner side of the 

 limbs white. 



This species is subject, like its more southern congener, to great 

 variations in colour, according to season, locahty, and possibly some- 

 what according to sex. 



