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specimens to a rufous, or even a light brownish gray ; the under parts being paler. 

 Generally the end of the tail is black, but its extreme tip may occasionally be whit- 

 ish. The young are of a uniform sooty-brown color. A specimen measured by 

 Hodgson had a length of thirty-seven and one-half inches, exclusive of the tail ; 

 the latter measuring fourteen and one-half inches with the hair and eight inches 

 without the same. This wild dog is found throughout the forest-clad portions of 

 the Himalayas, from Kashmir to Assam, and in Gilgit, L,adakh, and Eastern Tibet. 



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(One-eighth natural size.) 



Southward of the Himalayas, it is found in the larger forests of India, although it 

 is unknown in Ceylon. In inhabiting alike the forests of peninsular India and the 

 forest-clad regions of the Himalayas, as well as the treeless districts of Tibet, the In- 

 dian wild dog presents an instance precisely analogous to that of the lynx, already 

 noticed. Hodgson, who alludes to the animal by the Himalayan name of buansu, 

 states that although the Indian wild dog is " not deficient in speed or power of leap- 

 ing, yet his motions all appear to be heavy, owing to the measured uniformity of 

 his pace. He runs in a lobbing long canter, is unapt at the double, and upon the 



