SUB-GENUS I. CHAON. 
SECTION I. LUPUS. 
THE WOLVES. 
Lupus, Linn,—Sub-genus Chaon, Ham. Smith. 
Tue typical wolf of Europe and Asia, and the 
varieties belonging to this tribe in America, may 
be described as animals occupying the two conti- 
nents, from within the arctic circle on the north, 
to Spain, and perhaps to Morocco, on the west side 
of the old continent; to Syria, and beyond the 
Crishna, in India; and to near the isthmus of 
Panama in the New World. Further south, in the 
Jast mentioned part of the globe, they are replaced 
by an aberrant canine, the red wolf of Cuvier; and 
in the first, by hyzenas, the painted lycaon or Canis 
pictus, and perhaps by other species not as yet fully 
investigated. In China, wolves abound in the pro- 
vince of Xantung; but how far they are found to 
the south is not known. Buffon, from the account 
of Adangon, asserts the existence of a powerful race 
of wolves in the Senegal country, hunting in com- 
pany with the lion; but the name is most likely 
applied to an hyena, a lycaon, or one of the red 
chrysean group. 
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