126 THE CANINE FAMILY 



and races that haye since been nearly or entirely 

 extirpated. 



This opinion is strengthened by the fact, that in 

 the Scriptures repeated allusions are made to the 

 wolf as then existing inJudea; allusions inappli- 

 cable to any other wild canine; and yet, at the 

 present time, the animal now called the wolf in 

 Palestine, the deeb of the Arabs, is a far inferior 

 species in strength; by naturalists classed among 

 jackals, and by us referred to the particular group 

 of Sacalius, Again, beyond Bengal, east of the 

 Burhampootra, including the Burman empire, Siani, 

 Pegu, and the Malay peninsula, no hyasna, wolf, 

 fox, or jackal, is known, and, by implication, no 

 wild species of dog may be added ; a circumstance 

 tending to the surmise, that the first mentioned 

 advanced from the west and all the others from the 

 north, have not penetrated to this south-eastern 

 angle of Asia, and consequently, that the primitive 

 location of several animals, was, like man, confined 

 to particular places.* 



The jackal is now found even in Europe, although 

 neither that nor the hyaena are described by Greek 

 writers with the knowledge which they would havd 

 evinced, had the animals been so common as they 



* See Crawfurd's Embassy to Ava, and our account of 

 Topel hyaena. Indo-China is, however, possessed of several 

 species of elongated camassiers, wholly or in part supplying 

 the place of Canidae. Beside the deeb of the Arabs, the zeeb 

 is mentioned as allied to the wolf, but does not seem to b<i 

 found in Palestine. 



