BLACK WOLF. 297 



" D, With a very large head; great jaws; vast 

 teeth : on the upper lips strong bristles, reflected 

 backwards, not unlike the softer spines of a por- 

 cupine, and of a grey and white-colour : large, 

 erect, cinereous ears ; the space between marked 

 with broad tawny spots: the head ash-coloured, 

 striped transversely with bending dusky lines : 

 neck fat and thick, covered with a loose skin, 

 marked with a long tawny stroke : on the breast is 

 another of the same kind: body ash-coloured, 

 spotted with black; and the sides striped, from 

 the back downwards, with the same colour : belly 

 cinereous: tail long, of the colour of the belly, 

 tinged in the middle with tawny: legs and feet 

 striped with black and ash-colour." Mr. Pen- 

 nant adds, that Hermandez himself (its first de- 

 scriber) considers it as a variety of the common 

 species. It is sometimes found white. It is a 

 native of the hotter parts of Mexico, and in its 

 manners agrees with the common Wolf. 



BLACK WOLF. 



Canis Lycaon. C. cauda recta, corpore toto migro. lin. Syst. 



Nat, Gmel. p. 73. 

 Black Wolf with strait tail. 

 Loup noir. Bitff". 9. p. 362. pi. 41. 



THIS animal, considered by Buffon and others 

 as a variety only of the common Wolf, is at pre- 

 sent regarded as a distinct species. Like the 

 common Wolf, it is found both in Europe and 



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