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THE COMMON WOLF. 



In the British Museum, however, there are two skulls of wolves from 

 Japan. Neither skull exhibits any character by which it can be 

 specifically distinguished from C. lupus, but the two differ very much 



Fig. 17. 



CAKIS HODOPHYLAX. 

 (Facsimile from ' The Chrysanthemum.' See note, p. 13.) 



in size, though both are fully adult. If, then, so great a difference can 

 exist between the size of the head of adult Japanese wolves, it is 

 difficult to think that the length of the limbs may not have varied 

 from that found in the Continental wolves. Moreover, Prof. Brauns 

 lets us know that the Japanese variety (hodopJiylax) does vary much, 

 since he expressly says that in the Museum at Tokio there are very 



