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wanders into the southern division, and sometimes into the northern. 

 His limits, east and west, are, as I know, the Kali and Tista ; and, as 

 I am informed upon good authority, the Satlej and the Brahmapiitr. 

 Wild dogs, probably not materially differing from those of Nepal, are 

 found, likewise, in the Vindhya, the Ghats, the Nilgiris, the Kasya 

 Hills, and finally in the chain extending brokenly from Mirzapur through 

 South Behar and Orissa to the Coromandel Coast. The Buansu is, in 

 size, midway between the wolf and the jackal, being two and a half 

 feet long from the tip of the nose to the insertion of the tail, and 

 twenty-one inches in average height. It is a slouching, uncompact, 

 long, lank animal, with all the marks of uncultivation about it, best 

 assimilated in its general aspect to the jackal, but with a something 

 inexpressibly, but genuinely, canine in its physiognomy. It has a 

 broad flat head and sharp visage, large erect ears, a chest not broad 

 nor deep, a shallow compressed barrel somewhat strained at the loins, 

 long heavy limbs, broad spreading feet, and a very bushy tail of 

 moderate length, straight and carried low. Its coiour is deep rusty 

 red above, yellowish below. It stands rather lower before than behind, 

 with the neck in the line of the body, the head unelevated, and the 

 nose pointed almost directly forwards, the fore limbs straightened, the 

 hind stooping, the back inclined to arch, especially over the croup, and 

 the tail pendulous. In action the tail is slightly raised, but never so 

 high as the horizontal line. Though the Buansu be not deficient in 

 speed or power of leaping, yet his motions all seem to be heavy, owing 

 to their measured uniformity. He runs in a lobbing long canter, is 

 unapt at the double, and, upon the whole, is somewhat less agile and 

 speedy than the jackal, very much so than the fox. In general aspect, 

 there can be no comparison instituted between the Buansu and the 

 fox, but one may illustrate him by such a comparison with the jackal. 

 To a rather more full-opened eye, better placed in the head, and pro- 

 vided with something like a brow, the Buansu chiefly owes his less 

 sinister and more dog-like expression of countenance, the effect being 

 aided by a rather better forehead, and less elongated and sharpened 

 face. The wild dog's ears are twice as large as the jackal's, his limbs 

 considerably longer, and his feet larger and more spread out, not to 

 mention the great tufts of floccy hair, with which their soles are pro- 

 vided, and of which we find hardly a trace in the jackal's feet. The 

 fur, or external covering of the Buansii, consists of wavy wool, and 

 straight harsh hair, in summer, in nearly equal proportions, in winter, 

 two parts of wool to one of hair. On the body in general, it is longish, 

 smoothly directed backwards, and rather loosely applied to the skin, by 



