DHOLE OF CEYLON. 183 
Mebbia of Congo, which assemble to the number 
of thirty or forty, and hunt all kinds of animals, 
but offer no hostility to man. These wild dogs 
cannot be confounded with the Canis pictus, which 
in all probability resides in Western Africa, because 
the limbs of the Mebbia are described as remark- 
ably heavy, and the colour of their fur is rufous. 
