312 CEYLONESE DOG. 



shorter, and the nose more slender. A drawing 

 made from the skin of this animal in the Ashmo- 

 lean Museum at Oxford was communicated, as 

 before mentioned, by Mr. Pennant to the Count 

 de Buffon, which he caused to be engraved in 

 his third supplemental volume. 



CEYLONESE DOG. 



Canis Ceilonicus. C. tinereo-flaoescens, naso elongato, cauda 



longa acuminata, ungnibus incunis. 

 Yellowish-grey Dog, with lengthened snout, long sharp-pointed 



tail, and crooked claws. 

 Chien sauvage de Ceylon. Vosmaer descr. 

 Ceylonese Dog. Pennant Quadr. i.p. 266. 



THIS species is a native of Ceylon, but no par- 

 ticulars relative to its manners or history are 

 known. It was described by Mr. Vosmaer from 

 a stuifed skin. He informs us that it was a little 

 larger than a common domestic cat, measuring 

 about twenty-two inches from nose to tail: the 

 tail itself sixteen inches, gradually tapering to the 

 point. The ground colour is a yellowish-grey, 

 with a cast of brown on some parts, owing to the 

 longer hairs which are of that colour: the feet are 

 strongly tinged with brown ; and here and there 

 alons: the back the brown cast seems to form a 



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kind of stripes or rays: the belly is cinereous: 

 the hair on the whole animal is closish, but soft 

 to the touch: the head is long and pointed; the 



