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ed the polynomic designations which hitherto were 

 t necessarily adopted, without producing a prima facie 

 idea of the animal, or even of the group to which 

 it- belongs. 



These conclusions are not the result of hasty 

 conviction, as it is forty years since we first com- 

 menced to collect the materials upon which they 

 are based. 



POSTSCRIPT. 



SINCE the first part of the Work went to press, we 

 have been enabled, through the liberality of Mr. 

 Warwick, of the Royal Sifrrey Zoological Gardens, 

 to make a drawing and take notes from a skin of 

 the wild dog of. Sumatra, from which it appears 

 that there is in several respects considerable dif- 

 ference between that and the living individual 

 described by the late General Hardwicke. This 

 skin being three feet two inches from nose to tail, 

 of which the head alone measuring nearly ten 

 inches, shows an animal double the bulk of the 

 living specimen, although the height at the shoul- 

 der cannot have exceeded seventeen inches, while 

 the other was fourteen, and therefore in form it 

 must have resembled Chryseus primcevus : its colour 

 was entirely of a bright rufous orange, below pass- 



