74 CATALOGUE. 



Cuon primaevus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 57. Cat. 



Hodgson's Coll. p. 10. Zool. of the Voy. ofH.M. 



Ship Samarang, p. 16. Cantor, Catal. of Malayan 



Mamm. p. 26. 



Chrysseus primsevus, Ham. Smith. 

 Wild Dog, or Dhole, Williamson, Oriental Field Sports, 



pp. 30-35. 



BUANSU, in Nepal, Hodgson. 

 ANJING UTAN, of the Malays of the Peninsula of Malacca, 



Cantor. 

 ? Quihoe, Johnson's Indian Field Sports. Cited, by different 



writers, Qyo, Quihoe, Quo, and Khoa. 



HAB. The sub -Himalayan ranges, from the Sutlej in the west, 

 to the Brahmaputr in the east, Hodgson. Bengal, 

 Williamson. Malayan peninsula, Cantor. 



A. Presented by N. Wallich, Esq., late Superintendent 

 of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 



Specimens of the two Wild Dogs from India here enumerated are as 

 yet very rare in collections, and their title to a specific rank respectively 

 requires further comparisons ; they are nearly related to each other. 

 Williamson briefly refers to the Dhole in the following remarks : " On 

 the subject of the extreme shyness of this animal, and of its cunning in 

 evading the eye of man, I should, perhaps, after more than twenty 

 years' residence in Bengal, in which time I had traversed the country 

 in almost every direction, have quitted India, and been inclined to 

 dispute the existence of the Dhole, had I not been stationed two years 

 in Ramghur, in the heart of the western frontier, and had ocular 

 demonstration of its identity." 



The following narrative combines the observations made on both 

 species in different localities. 



The Cuon dukhunensis appears to be indicated by Dr. F. (Buchanan) 

 Hamilton in his " Travels in Mysore, Canara, and Malabar." In 

 vol. I. p. 191, he states : " It is said that in the great forests round 

 Savana-durga, there is a small animal called the Shin-nai, or Red Dog, 

 which fastens itself by surprise on the neck of the tiger, and kills him. 

 I have seen native drawings of the Shin-nai, which appear to represent 

 an animal not yet described." 1807. 



In Dukhun, Colonel Sykes found a wild dog, named Kolson by the 

 Mahrattas, the Canis dukhunensis of Colonel Sykes's ".Catalogue of 



