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SECTION I. LUPUS. 



THE WOLVES. 



Lupus, lAnn Sub-genus Chaon, Ham. Smith. 



The typical wolf of Europe and Asia, and the 

 varieties belonging to this tribe in America, may 

 be described as animals occupying the two conti- 

 nents, from within the arctic circle on the north, 

 to Spain, and perhaps to Morocco, on the west side 

 of the old continent; to Syria, and beyond the 

 (Jrishna, in India; and to near the isthmus of 

 Panama in the New World. Further south, in the 

 last mentioned part of the globe, they are replaced 

 by an aberrant canine, the red wolf of Cuviw ; and 

 in the first, by hyaenas, the painted lycaon or Canit 

 picttis^ and perhaps by other species not as yet fully 

 investigated. In China, wolves abound in the pro- 

 vince of Xantung ; but how far they are found to 

 the south is not known. Buffon, from the account 

 of Adan9on, asserts the existence of a powerful race 

 of wolves in the Senegal country, hunting in com- 

 pany with the lion; but the name is most likely 

 applied to an hyaena, a lycaon, or one of the red 

 chrysean group. 



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