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great personal courage, and the instinct of defend- 
ing each other in danger. Their voice is a kind of 
barking ; they hunt both by day and by night; and 
though fearing the presence of man, they have the 
courage to attack the largest animals, the antelope, 
the wild boar, the buffalo, not excepting the tiger 
and lion. Bearing an inherent hostility to the larger 
feline, they are incessantly on the watch to destroy 
the whelps, and the concert and energy they display 
in encountering the adults, is believed to be the 
chief cause, which all Indian sportsmen admit, of 
the alarm of the tiger at the sight even of a domestic 
spaniel ; indeed, the dread cannot have been caused 
by the sportsman’s domesticated spaniels or pointers, 
but must lie deeper in the natural instincts of beasts 
of the forest ; and we may surmise, that the species 
of Chryseus are the instruments Nature has ap- 
pointed to keep down the superabundant merease 
of the great feline of the wilderness. The manners 
and instinctive faculties of these animals remove 
them alike from wolves and from jackals. No natu- 
ralist adverts to the offensive odour so commonly 
remarked in wolves, jackals, and foxes, as belonging 
to them ; whence, we may conelude, that they ap- 
proximate dogs also in the smaller volume of the 
anal glands; and as there appears to be a proba- 
bility that a species of this group formerly resided 
in Europe, to their nightly hunting, perhaps more 
than to the wolf, may be ascribed the origin of the 
mysterious stories of romance, first found in the 
Ostrogoth sagas, concerning the wild hunter of Ger- 
