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CHRYSEUS JAVANICUa 

 Cants Javanicus, Desm. 



Probably the Asuwawa of Raffles. This specw^s 

 was first brought to Europe by Monsieur Lesche- 

 naut. It is in size and proportions equal to a com- 

 mon wolf, but the ears are smaller; the colour is 

 fulvous brown, blackish on the back, feet, and tail. 

 It is evidently a tenant of the woods. Messrs. 

 F. Cuvier and Desmarets class the C, Javanlcui 

 with wolves. Its manners are still unknown. 



This short review of the Chrysean group, we 

 trust, will be sufficient to make naturalists pause 

 before they come to the gratuitous conclusion that 

 wild diurnal canines, being neither wolves nor 

 jackals, are necessarily feral dogs or dogs become 

 wild, after they or their progenitors had been do- 

 mesticated. They have been traced through Asia, 

 Africa, and the Australian islands; and although 

 there are clearly several very distinct species in the 

 number, they all retain the fulvous livery, and in 

 their wild state none assume the distinctions to 



