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when heard for the first time at night ; and as they usually come in 

 packs, the first shriek which is uttered is always the signal for a 

 general chorus. We hardly know a sound which partakes less of 

 harmony than that which is at present in question ; and indeed the 

 sudden burst of the answering long protracted scream, succeeding 

 immediately the opening note, is scarcely less impressive than the roll 

 of a thunder-clap immediately after a flash of lightning." (Travels on 

 the Northern Coast of Africa, p. 492.) 



The claim to the authority of the specific name aureus, probably 

 belongs to the venerable Ksempfer, whose account of the Lupus aureus 

 was published in 1712. His early remarks on the habits of the Jackal 

 are fully confirmed by the later writers here quoted. " Astuta, audax, 

 et furacissima est, quam ex corporis figura non minus quam ex genio 

 non incongrue lupi vulpem vocaveris : interdiu circa montes latet, 

 noctu pervigil et vagus est, et catervatim prsedatum excurrit in rura 



et pagos Ululatum noctu edunt execrabilem, ejaculatui humano 



non dissimilem, quern interdum vox latrantium quasi canum interstre- 

 pit ; unique inclamanti omnes acclamant, quotquot vocem e longinquo 

 audiunt." (Amcen. exoticae, 1712, fasc. II. p. 413.) 



104. CANIS LUPUS, Linn. 



Canis lupus, Elliot, Madras Journ. Lit. and Sc. X. p. 101. 



Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Eeng. XI. p. 596. 

 Canis pallipes, Sykes, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 101. 

 Landgah, or Indian Wolf, Gray, Catal, Mamm. Br. Mus. 



p. 58. 



LANDGAH, Dukhani, Elliot. Sykes. 

 BHERIJA, Hindustani, Shakespear. 

 TOLA, Canarese, Elliot. 

 HAB. Central and Southern regions of India. 



A. A skin, not quite perfect. Presented by Colonel 



Sykes. 



Walter Elliot, Esq., communicates the following information respect- 

 ing the Indian Wolf. (Madras Journ. Lit. and Sc. X. p. 101.) 



"' This species does not appear to differ from the common wolf. 

 Three young ones which I had alive for some time agreed very much 

 with the description of the Canis pallipes of Colonel Sykes, but several 

 adults that I shot differed in their colours and general character. The 

 head was large, the muzzle thicker, the colours in some cases more in- 

 clining to rufous, particularly on the fore legs, which in some cases were 

 deep red, and the same colour was found on the muzzle from the eyes 



