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THE WOLVES. 



The fourth and fifth, aciniones, and perhaps icti^ 

 nus^ were smaller; with a lengthened body, strong 

 and shaggy limbs, but having the face more pointed ; 

 the ears, eyes, and feet more diminutive. One had the 

 back and belly whitish and the feet dark coloured, 

 and the other was entirely black : they hunted hares 

 with their fur bristling on end. 



In referring these to the species at present known 

 to exist in Turkey, we may take it for granted that 

 the first mentioned is the common rufous wolf of 

 Greece, and especially of Natolia. The second may 

 be regarded as the hoary variety, still abundant in 

 the north of Canada, and not unfrequent in Norway. 

 It was a mountain race, and appears to have hunted 

 singly, not in troops like the other. The golden 

 species is, however, more questionable; although 

 modem writers have followed Linnaeus in applying 

 the name to the jackal, and Gesner believed it de- 

 signated the hyaena. It is evident that the animal 

 was larger and more formidably armed than the 

 former; that it could not bear the heat, and was 

 bright fulvous ; characters not applicable to jackals ; 

 and that it was not the latter, because beauty can- 

 not be ascribed to hyaenas, who are sufficiently 

 known, and are likewise able to bear the highest 

 temperature without suffering. It is, therefore, only 

 referable to the beluel of Persia, which appears to 

 be the same as the wild dog of Beloochistan, by the 

 ancients confounded with thos^ and by the writers 

 of the present day it should be included among the 

 dholes. 



The fourth species of Oopian we are inclined to 



