258 THE ETHIOPIAN, &c. 



the former had no cutting teeth ; for in no ani- 

 mal is the number and order of the teeth fo va- 

 rious as in the hog kind. This difference alone 

 feems not fufficient to conftitute two fpecies of 

 the African wild boar and that of Cape Verd, 

 efpecially as all the other characters of the head 

 appear to be the fame. 



XIII. 



THE MEXICAN WOLF*. 



AS the wolf is a native of cold climates, he 

 mull have paflcd into America by the northern 



lands, 



* Wolf with a very large head ; great jaws; vafl teeth ; ou 

 the upper lips very ftrong bridles, refleifled backwards, not un- 

 like the fofter fpines of a porcupine ; and of a gray and whita 

 colour ; large ereifl cinereous ears i the fpace between marked 

 with broad tawny fpots : The head afli-coloured, llriped 

 tranfverfely with bending duilcy lines ; neck fat and thick, 

 covered with a loofe fkin, marked with a long tawny ftroke : 

 On the bread is another of the fame kind : Body a(h-coloured, 

 fpotted with black; and, the fides ftriped, from the back 

 downwards, with the fame colour ; belly cinereous ; tail long, 

 of the colour of the belly, tinged in the middle with tawny ; 

 legs and feet ftriped with black and afh colour : Sometimes 

 this variety is found white ; Pinnant'sfynopf. of quad. p. 151. 



Xoloizcuintii ; Hernand. Mex. />. 479. 

 ' Cuetlachtli, feu lupus Indicus ; Fermnd. Ann. Nov. Hifp. />• 7- 



Canis 



