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ported to have quite as much instinct and discern- 

 ment as the familiar breeds, but it is not as yet 

 known what their temper may be when grown up. 

 The species belongs to the woody and rocky moun- 

 tain ranges between the Sutleje and the Boorham- 

 pootra, but it is found, with some distinctive features 

 of race or variety, more to the south, in the Pindya 

 hills, the Ghauts, the Nielgherries, the Casiah hills, 

 in South Bahar, and Orissa, to the coast of Coro- 

 mandel. Among these. 



The Kolsun^ or Canis Dukhunensis of Col. Sykes, 

 is stated to be a mere variety of the above, having 

 a similar skull and dentition, but differing in the 

 colours of the fur being somewhat paler and the 

 quantity less dense; a difference which may be 

 ascribed to the latitude and the habitat being both 

 lower, and therefore much warmer. Colonel Sykes's 

 specimen had the head elongated and compressed, the 

 nose not very sharp, the eyes oblique, pupils round, 

 irides light brown, the expression of the coimte- 

 nance similar to a coarse ill-tempered Persian grey- 

 hound, distinct from all other wild canines ; the ears 

 were erect, long, somewhat rounded, without fold of 

 the tragus ; limbs remarkably large and strong in 

 relation to the bulk of the body ; neck long ; body 

 elongated ; between the eyes and nose red brown ; 

 end of the tail blackish ; general colour red, paler 

 beneath; the tail pendulous and bushy. Length 

 from nose to tail thirty- three inches ; tail eight 

 inches and a half; height at the shoulder sixteen 

 inches and a half. 



