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(t Catulus captus facile cicuratur, et in hospitio 

 adultus blanditur; homines laste adspiciendo, 

 caudam motitando, corpus prosternendo, vel in 

 dorso se projiciendo, levi murmure ganniendo. 

 Dominum distinguit a reliquis; ad nomen pro- 

 prium ipsi impositum attendit; in mensam invita- 

 tus insilit; contortuplicatus dormit; lambendo bi- 

 bit; scybala dura cacat; ad latus mingit; in so- 

 cietate canum pacificus anum eorum odorat. Odor, 

 quern Schacala per glandulas anales spargit, nee 

 teterrimus, ut Dumon voluit, nee moscho analo- 

 gus, ut alii voluerunt, hunc eo vulpis mitiorem et 

 illo canis foetore instante tempestate erumpente, 

 vix deteriorem esse sentio." 



That the Jackal and Dog readily intermix or 

 breed, appears from various testimonies, accord- 

 ing to the Count de Buffon, in his chapter on the 

 degeneration of animals. Mr. G. cannot consi- 

 der the cauda recumata as an essential character 

 of the Dog, but thinks it may have originated 

 from cicuration. The Jackal, he thinks, with 

 many other authors, may probably be the Thos of 

 Aristotle. 



Mr. G. saw no Jackals of the exact measure 

 given by Gmelin, but, in general, of twenty-six 

 or twenty-seven Paris inches from the nose to the 

 beginning of the tail. The general colour, he 

 adds, is a dirty fulvous, rather blacker on the back, 

 and yellowish-white beneath. On each knee is 

 generally a black patch, and the tip of the tail is 

 of the same colour. 



