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THE SOUTHERN DHOLE. 



CTON JAYANICUS. 



Canis javanicus, Desmarest, Mammalogie, p. 198 (1820) ; F. Cuvier, 



Diet, des Sc. Nat. vol. viii. p. 557. 

 Canis familiaris, var. sumatrensis, Hardwicke, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. 



p. 235, pi. xxiii. (1822). 

 Canis dukhunensis, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 100; Blyth, Journ.As. 



Soc. Bengal, vol. xi. p. 591. 

 Cards primavus, Hodgson, Asiatic Res. xviii. pt. 2, p. 221 (1833), with 



a figure. 

 Canis rutilans, S. Miiller, Verhandelingen Zool. Zoogd. pp. 27, 51 (1839) ; 



Blyth, Catalogue of Mammals and Birds of Burmah, p. 24'; 



J. A. Wagner, Suppl. to Schreber's Saugthiere, Abth. ii. 



p. 379. 

 Cuonprimaevus, Hodgson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 152 (1838) ; 



id. Calcutta Journal Nat. Hist. vol. ii. pp. 208, 412; 



Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 514; Cantor, Journ. Asiat. 



Soc. Bengal, vol. xv. p. 196; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, 



p. 498; id. Cat. Carnivorous Mammalia, p. 184; Murie, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 715. 

 Cuon rutilans, Blyth, Catalogue of Mammals and Birds of Burmah, p. 37 ; 



Jerdon's Mammals of India, p. 145. 

 Cuon sumatrensis and dukhunensis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, pp. 498 



and 500. 



Cyon dukhunensis, Blanford, Fauna of British India, Mamm. p. 143. 

 Cyon rutilans, Blanford, ibid. p. 147. 

 Cyon primavus, Scully, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 202. 

 Cyon javanicus, Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 89. 



WHETHER there are or are not two distinct species of Cyon south of the 

 Himalayas is a question as to which some distinguished naturalists 

 differ. We have carefully examined a very large number of skins 

 with the several skulls belonging to them coming from stations 



