180 THE TRUE DHOLE. 
zle, back of the ears, and feet sooty. From this 
description the animal differs from Chryseus prime- 
vus and the other races, in being more slender and 
higher on the legs, in having a sharper muzzle, a 
long close-haired tail, and large dark ears. It is 
reported to hunt in packs of greater numbers, to 
utter a cry, while on the scent, resembling the voice 
of a fox-hound, intermixed with occasional snarling 
yelps. Dr Daniel Johnson witnessed a pack attack- 
ing a wild boar. 
The drawing we possess of Chryseus scylax was 
taken from a carefully executed Indian water- colour 
painting, observed in a collection on sale in London, 
some years before Capt. Williamson’s Oriental Field 
Sports were published. Colonel Deare, then a cap- 
tain, was about this time in London, and the copy 
being shown him, he first conveyed the information 
that it represented the Dhole, or, as he termed it, 
the True Dhole, distinct in form from the other 
species already described. In Europe, that name 
was then only known to a very few persons who 
had previously resided in India. Specimens occur, 
it seems, very rarely, and these only in the Rham- 
ghany hills, and sometimes in the western Ghauts. 
