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whole is somewhat less agile and speedy than the jackal, and very much less so 

 than the fox. The wild dog preys both by night and day, but chiefly by day. Six, 

 eight, or ten unite to hunt down their victim, maintaining the chase by their pow- 

 ers of smell rather than by the eye. . . . The buansu does not burrow like the 

 wolf or the fox, but reposes and breeds in the recesses and natural cavities of the 

 rocks. ' ' After stating that the number in a pack may occasionally be as many as 



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MALAY WILD DOG. 



(One-seventh natural size.) 



twenty, Mr. Blanford observes that these wild dogs "live principally upon deer of 

 various kinds and wild pigs in India, and on wild sheep and antelopes in Tibet. 

 Many sambar and spotted deer are killed by them, while occasionally nilgai and 

 Indian antelopes fall victims. Wild dogs avoid the neighborhood of man, and con- 

 sequently but rarely attack domestic animals ; occasionally, however, they kill 

 sheep, goats, and cattle, and Jerdon mentions one instance, and M' Master another, 



