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the hair, forming a broad streak, stood up crisped. 

 This appearance may be accidental, although a 

 second specimen somewhat more rufous and larger 

 had likewise the hair of the back standing up at the 

 points.* The first was in the museum of Prague ; 

 the second, in private hands, came from Scanderoon. 

 A reverend friend, who resided long in Asia Minor 

 and is well known in his literary capacity, commu- 

 nicated to us a part of his journal where he had 

 noted the discovery of a suspicious looking animal 

 in a chalk quarry about six miles from Smyrna, 

 much superior in size to a jackal, but not a wolf; 

 he is however in doubt whether it is this species or 

 one of the Chryseus heluel before named. The na- 

 tives of Natolia informed him that it was likely he 

 had seen the animal they call the Great Jackal. 



As the characters which Oppian assigns to his 

 acimones appear' to agree with the animal under 

 consideration in the short neck, broad shoulders, 

 heavy limbs, small eyes, and sharp anterior part of 

 the head, we think the name of Acmon may be 

 applied to distinguish it from others. We are even 

 inclined to believe that this race of animals is 

 intended, where the ancients relate that a kind of 

 wolves damaged the fishing-nets of the inhabitants 

 on the Canopian Gulf of the Palus Meotis, unless 

 they were allowed a proportion of the produce 

 obtained from the water by the fishermen. t 



* This character of the hair seems to be in the notice of 

 Acmon in Oppian. 

 *t* Steplianus. 



