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the other seen in the southern provinces. This 

 Dhole was represented to be a robust thick-bodied 

 animal, nearly equal in height to a harrier hound, 

 but heavier in weight ; the head broad and ponder- 

 ous ; the forehead flat, with a greater distance from 

 the ears to the eyes than from these to the nose ; 

 this was blunt, dark-coloured, and rather broad, the 

 rictus or gape black, opening to beneath the eyes, 

 which were of a greenish yellow, set in dark eyelids, 

 and offering a most ferocious aspect ; the teeth very 

 powerful ; the legs and claws remarkably strong, 

 resembling a bulldog's, and the tail rather short, but 

 most bushy towards the end, and sooty in colour ; 

 the general colour of the fur tanned, browner on the 

 back, with some white on the breast, belly, and 

 between the limbs. It growled with a deep and 

 threatening voice, and the natives related, that, in 

 danger, the animal, by means of the tail, flings its 

 urine in the eyes of pursuers. The Colonel con- 

 sidered this not to be the true Dhole, and character- 

 ized it as reminding the spectator of a low-legged 

 nyaena with the colour of a dog, but he was too 

 familiar with the Hoondar'^ to mistake it for that 

 animal. It was reported to hunt in packs, uttering 

 an occasional deep-toned bay. 



The Beluel of Avicenna, which he seems to have 

 considered to be the Thos of antiquity, is the next 

 we have to mention. This we take to be the Beluch 



* The name of the hyaena of India, very distinctly marked 

 vith dark zigzag lines down the back, but lower than the 



