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crooked ; the tail is straight, somewhat longer in 

 proportion, and more brushy than in the wolf; the 

 hair, four inches long, being yellowish beneath, and 

 more greyish above, but all tipped with black, 

 which causes the end to appear of that colour. 

 The fur of the animal is externally more coarse 

 than that of the wolf, and on the shoulders it is 

 particularly long; the woolly under coat is grey. 

 The four central incisor teeth are truncated, with- 

 out apparent notches ; the exterior upper incisors 

 larger, and carinated ; the same below are obtuse ; 

 and the tongue is bordered with a row of warts. 



This race is spread over Northern Persia, south- 

 ernmost part of Russia, and Natolia; they are 

 very abundant on the Asiatic side of Constantinople, 

 about Smyrna, &c. ; and it is believed to be this 

 species, or a variety of it, which is found in the 

 Morea, in the mountains of Pindus as far west- 

 ward as Cattaro, and in the Guipona and Corzoca 

 islands of the Adriatic. 



The Syrian Jackal is distinguished by brown 

 ears ; the fur above is dirty yellow, deeper on the 

 back, lighter at the sides, whitish-yellow below; 

 the feet are reddish-brown ; the tail of the colour 

 of the back, having a black tip. Each hair of the 

 back is of four distinct colours ; white at the root, 

 then black, above which foxy-red, and the point 

 black. Gueldenstaedt gives the len^h, from now 



