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THOUS TOKLA, Nobis, 



Tulki of the Persians, and probably the Tokla of Abyssinia, 



Is a larger canine than the T, anthus^ distinguished 

 from the rest of the group by the predominance of 

 rufous woolly hair, interspersed on the sides and 

 covered on the back with long coarse black hairs ; 

 the belly is snow white and the ears jet black ; the 

 tail, rather short, is of the colour of the woolly fur, 

 but with a patch at the root, and the tip of shining- 

 black hair. It howls with a moaning voice, and is 

 confounded by Olearius with the common jackal. 

 In Abyssinia the Tokla's bite is much feared, and is 

 evidently the same as the Toqua of the Hottentots, 

 which the Dutch of the Cape interpret by the name 

 of wolf, and Mr Kolbe as well as Sir J. Barrow 

 seem to have regarded as the Lupus vulgaris. The 

 long hair on the back of the ^Ethiopian Lycaon of 

 Solinus may be the black hair above mentioned, and 

 this ridge is not singular in Africa. "We shall find 

 it again in the Megalotisfamelicus^ offering a counter- 

 part to the red Aguara wolf in Tropical America, 



