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Walter Elliot, Esq., in his " Catalogue of Mammalia in the Southern 

 Mahratta Country," informs us that " the wild dog was not known in 

 the Southern Mahratta country until of late years. It has now become 

 very common. The circumstance of their attacking in a body, and 

 killing the tiger, is universally believed by the natives. Instances of their 

 killing the wild boar, and of tigers leaving a jungle in which a pack of wild 

 dogs had taken up their quarters, have come to my own knowledge ; 

 and on one occasion, a party of the officers of the 18th regiment M.N.I, 

 saw a pack run into and kill a large sambur stag near Dharwar." 



In the Malayan Peninsula the Cuon prim&vus was observed by Dr. 

 Cantor, who obtained a pair from the interior of Malacca. In their 

 habits and peculiarities they resembled those found in other parts of the 

 continent of India. 



On the history and peculiarities of the wild dog as it is found at the 

 foot of the Himalayas, B. H. Hodgson, Esq., has given authentic and 

 comprehensive details in a paper printed in the eighteenth volume of 

 the " Asiatic Researches," pp. 221 to 237, which contains the result of 

 his observations on the form, peculiarities, and habits of this animal. 



Mr. Hodgson introduces his description by some general remarks on 

 the primitive type of the Caninae, in which he refers to M. Fred. Cuvier's 

 arrangement of this group in the following terms : " By M. F. Cuv., 

 whose arrangement of the Caninae has been ratified by all the first 

 Zoologists in Europe, the Dogs are disposed according to their approxi- 

 mation to the primitive type, so far as that type was discoverable in the 

 wildest race known then to exist, and of which there were specimens 

 accessible to him. The race in question is the Dingo of Australia. 

 But as the Dingo is unquestionably at least half reclaimed, I presume 

 that a careful account of an entirely wild species of Dog will be very 

 acceptable to all who take an interest in the subject. And which of 

 us but must regard with interest the portrait of the primitive Dog, 

 either from affection for that devoted friend and follower of human 

 kind, or from the light which the inquiry is calculated to throw upon 

 the nature and limits of the distinction of species ? " 



" The Buansii, or Wild Dog of the Nepalese, inhabits that part of 

 these mountains which is equidistant from the snows and the plains, 

 or, in other words, the middle region of Nepal. But he frequently 



their cattle and their fields, for neither sambur, deer, or hog seems disposed to approach 

 places much frequented by the kollussnah. They hunt and kill the sambur, neelgaie, 

 hysena, deer, jackals, hares, hogs, bears, porcupines, and quails. They killed a tiger 

 in June last year, in the Teloongun jungles. 



