174 THE WILD DOG. 



some time in the neighbourhood, was 

 attributed. 



From hence we went down to Bengallee, 

 where it rained as determinately as it had 

 done higher up the valley ; had we been 

 content to have remained on the lower 

 ground and shot gooral, we might have had 

 some good sport ; but we would ascend the 

 mountains after tahir, and were fairly beat 

 by the mist. 



I have not yet mentioned the wild dog of 

 the Himalayas, which, although it cannot be 

 classed as game, and is no lit mark for a 

 hunter's rifle, is yet as great an object of 

 interest, as the surly bear or the sure-footed 

 ibex. Undoubtedly the true wild dog ; it is 

 much to be regretted that so little is known 

 concerning them : then- habits render it 

 difficult, indeed almost impossible, to make 

 close observations. Inhabiting no particular 

 district, they are to be found generally 

 throughout the hills, living in communities, 

 and the intUviduals of a pack acting toge- 

 thei' in concert. 



