126 THE CANINE FAMILY 
and races that have since been nearly or entirely 
extirpated. 
This opinion is strengthened by the fact, that in 
the Scriptures repeated allusions are made to the 
wolf as then existing in India; allusions inappli- 
cable to any other wild canine; and yet, at the 
present time, the animal now called the wolf in 
Palestine, the deeb of the Arabs, is a far inferior 
species in strength; by naturalists classed among 
jackals, and by us referred to the particular group 
of Sacalius. Again, beyond Bengal, east of the 
Burhampootra, including the Burman empire, Siam, 
Pegu, and the Malay peninsula, no hyena, wolf, 
fox, or jackal, is known, and, by implication, no 
wild species of dog may be added; a circumstance 
tending to the surmise, that the first mentioned 
advanced from the west and all the others from the 
north, have not penetrated to this south-eastern 
angle of Asia, and consequently, that the primitive 
location of several animals, was, like man, confined 
to particular places.* 
The jackal is now found even in Europe, although 
neither that nor the hyzna are described by Greek 
writers with the knowledge which they would have 
evinced, had the animals been so common as they 
* See Crawfurd’s Embassy to Ava, and our account of 
Topel hyena. Indo-China is, however, possessed of several 
species of elongated carnassiers, wholly or in part supplying 
the place of Canide. Beside the deeb of the Arabs, the zeeb 
is mentioned as allied to the wolf, but does not seem to be 
found in Palestine. 
