CTOX ALPINUS. 



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Radde has given careful details as to the exact localities in which he 

 ascertained that this animal was to be met with. He believes that 

 it lives by preference in such parts of the mountains as are most 

 densely covered with forest, and that it only exceptionally frequents 

 the open steppes. It appears indeed to be very local. It often goes 

 in troops of from ten to fifteen or even more individuals, led by strong, 

 fully adult male animals, but is sometimes found solitary in either case 

 eagerly hunting the deer, which it will sometimes entirely banish from 



Fig. 50. 



Fig. 51. 



Upper molar teeth of right side. Lower molar teeth of right side. 



(Natural size.) 



one region to another. It is represented to be a creature both cunning 

 and swift, and is feared by the hunters, who sometimes seek safety from 

 it in a tree. The dogs also appear to dread this Dhole, and turn back 

 from its traces, as if they were those of the tiger. The natives do not 

 eat its flesh, nor is its fur of any considerable value. 



