204 



WILD DOG OF NATOLIA. 



Thotts acmm, Smith. 



PLATE XIV. 



Perhaps the Schib of Syria. 



This animal has been confounded with the Turkish 

 fox and with the jackal, and unless carefully ob- 

 served would be mistaken for a country dog. The 

 specimen whence our drawing was taken measured 

 about seventeen inches at the shoulder, and was in 

 length from nose to tail two feet eight inches ; the 

 head resembled that of a sharp-nosed vermin-dog, 

 but the forehead is broader and flatter; the ears 

 small and triang-ular; the girth of the body and 

 neck full ; the hair of the forehead, neck, back, and 

 sides coarse ; the tail short, but the basal part had 

 crisped hair ; the remainder longer and divided into 

 five rings, three of which were black and two rust 

 colour ; from the nostrils to beneath the eyes, and 

 from thence somewhat irregularly downwards to 

 between the fore legs, the colour was white. All 

 the rest of the head, body, hams, sides, belly, and 

 upper part of the fore legs, including all the coarse 

 hair, was rufous, buff, white, and sepia, mixed into 

 a hoary fawn-coloured grey ; from the nape of the 

 neck down the back, including the base of the tail. 



