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CORSAC DOG-FOX. 



Cynalopex cor sac, 



PLATE XVL 



We think with Monsieur Desmarets, that this 

 species should he placed with the diurnal canines ; 

 and upon comparing one with the Pondicherry 

 Jackall, ahove described, we found the whole ex- 

 ternal form so very similar, that in the present 

 group appears to be its true location. 



Of the smaller wild canines of Asia we have as yet 

 a very imperfect knowledge. The Jackal is found 

 to have invaded a part of Russia ; and the Corsac, 

 it seems, is discovered far to the southward of the 

 Himalaya mountains. Although we doubt of its 

 being the Nongi hari of Malabar, the several indi- 

 viduals we have seen living and stuffed in London, 

 Paris, and elsewhere, indicate more than one race 

 to exist in India of diminutive Jackals with long 

 tails, and differing from the Corsac dog-foxes and 

 Buffon s figure of Isatis in nothing but shades of 

 colour. The Ckacal adive of the same author, re- 

 ferred to Corsac, differs, however, materially ; the 

 legs being muchshorter, the tail likewise scarcely 



