180 THE TRUE DHOLE. 



zle, back of the ears, and feet sooty. From this 

 description the animal differs from Chryseus jprimm- 

 vits and the other races, in being more slender and 

 higher on the legs, in having a sharper muzzle, a 

 long close-haired tail, and large dark ears. It is 

 reported to hunt in packs of greater numbers, to 

 utter a cry, while on the scent, resembling the voice 

 of a fox-hound, intermixed with occasional snarling 

 yelps. Dr Daniel Johnson witnessed a pack attack- 

 ing a wild boar. 



The drawing we possess of Chryseus scylax was 

 taken from a carefully executed Indian water- colour 

 painting, observed in a collection on sale in London, 

 some years before Capt. Williamson s Oriental Field 

 Sports were published. Colonel Deare, then a cap- 

 tain, was about this time in London, and the copy 

 being shown him, he first conveyed the information 

 that it represented the Dhole, or, as he termed it, 

 the True Dhole, distinct in form from the other 

 species already described. In Europe, that name 

 was then only known to a very few persons who 

 had previously resided in India. Specimens occur, 

 it seems, very rarely, and these only in the Rham- 

 ghur hills, and sometimes in the western Ghauts. 



