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the other seen in the southern provinces. This 
Dhole was represented to be a robust thick-bodied 
animal, nearly equal in height to a harrier hound, 
but heavier in weight; the head broad and ponder- 
ous; the forehead flat, with a greater distance from 
the ears to the eyes than from these to the nose ; 
this was blunt, dark-coloured, and rather broad, the 
rictus or gape black, opening to beneath the eyes, 
which were of a greenish yellow, set in dark eyelids, 
and offering a most ferocious aspect ; the teeth very 
powerful; the legs and claws remarkably strong, 
resembling a bulldog’s, and the tail rather short, but 
most bushy towards the end, and sooty in colour ; 
the general colour of the fur tanned, browner on the 
back, with some white on the breast, belly, and 
between the limbs. It growled with a deep and 
threatening voice, and the natives related, that, in 
danger, the animal, by means of the tail, flings its 
urine in the eyes of pursuers. The Colonel con- 
sidered this not to be the true Dhole, and character- 
ized it as reminding the spectator of a low-legged 
hyzena with the colour of a dog, but he was too 
familiar with the Hoondar* to mistake it for that 
animal. It was reported to hunt in packs, uttering 
an occasional deep-toned bay. 
The Beluel of Avicenna, which he seems to have 
considered to be the Thos of antiquity, is the next 
we have to mention. This we take to be the Beluch 
* The name of the hyena of India, very distinctly marked 
with dark zigzag lines down the back, but lower than the 
wolf, 
