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SENEGXirTHOUS. 



Thotts Senegalensis. 



PLATE XIII. 

 Chacal de Senegal, F. Cuv. 



The able French naturalist, last quoted, considers 

 the Senegal Thous to be a variety of his Cams an- 

 ihus^ but an artist seeing both would hardly admit 

 more than the approximation of the two species. 

 The animal is at least an inch higher at the shoul- 

 der, and several inches longer ; the ears are larger ; 

 the head more dog-like ; the tarsi higher ; the tail 

 shorter, less hairy ; and the form more gaunt. The 

 colours differ likewise; the nose and forehead are 

 greyish-buff; the throat and under parts white; 

 there is no black ring round the neck, nor the 

 stippled arrangement of black points on the back ; 

 that part is buff and greyish, with four or five 

 cloudy bars running in wavy lines downwards on 

 each side, the space between with fainter greyish 

 undulations; the darkest bars are on the croup, 

 where a sixth passes down to near the hocks and 

 upwards again towards the groin, leaving a whitish 

 space at the buttock and in front of the thigh ; the 



