8 THE COMMON WOLF. 



breast, which were white. They are the types of Dr. Sclater's * species 

 C. niger. 



Another black wolf in the British Museum has shorter fur and 

 browner knees than the former. Its face also is not white, but only 

 the lips, while there is some white behind the thigh, as well as brown 

 in front of it. 



Our Plate III. represents a fine specimen of a uniformly pale colour, 

 which was shot by Lieut. W. P. Hodnell in Chinese Tartary, and 

 presented by Lady A. Harvey to the British Museum. It was named 

 by Dr. Gray f Canis ckanco, and is the actual type of his species. Its 

 fur is pale fulvous, the hair of the back having black and grey hairs 

 intermixed. The head is greyish with short black and grey hairs on 

 the forehead. 



Its skull and teeth are like those of the Common Wolf. 



This is probably the same variety of wolf as that to which the name 

 C. laniger has been applied by Mr. B. H. Hodgson J, and which he 

 says is common all over Thibet, and he describes it as : "Above, dull 

 earthy-brown ; below, with the entire face and limbs yellowish-white. 

 No marks on the limbs. Tail concolorous with the body." He adds 

 that it measures three feet nine inches from snout to tail, and that the 

 tail is one foot four inches long. Mr. Blanford, in his ' Fauna of British 

 India ' , identifies, as we do, this form with the Common Wolf. He is 

 of a different opinion, however, as regards what is called the Indian 

 Wolf, to which the name C. pallipes was applied by Sykes || . But 

 Mr. Blanford only distinguishes it from C. lupus as being smaller and 

 slighter, with a shorter coat and little or no underfur. In these characters 

 we have found undoubted specimens of C. lupus to differ as much as 

 they differ from the Indian Wolf, and in five skins carefully examined by 



* P. Z. S. 1874, p. 654, plate Ixxviii. An account of the capture of these animals 

 will be found in a work entitled " Large-Game Shooting in Thibet and the North- 

 West." By Alexander A. A. Kinloch. (London, 1869 : Harrison.) 



t P. Z. S. 1863, p. 94. 



t Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. vii. (1847), p. 474 



Part I. pp. 135, 136. 



!| P.Z.S. 1831, p. 101. 



