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CHRYSEUS JAVANICUS. 
Canis Javanicus, DESM. 
PropaBiy the Asuwawa of Raffles. This species 
« was first brought to Europe by Monsieur Lesclie- 
naut. It is in size and proportions equal to a com- 
mon wolf, but the ears are smaller; the colour is 
fulvous brown, blackish on the back, feet, and tail. 
It is evidently a tenant of the woods. Messrs. 
F. Cuvier and Desmarets class the C. Javan‘cus 
with wolves. Its manners are still unknown. 
This short review of the Chrysean group, we 
trust, will be sufficient to make naturalists pause 
before they come to the gratuitous conclusion that 
wild diurnal canines, being neither wolves nor 
jackals, are necessarily feral dogs or dogs become 
wild,-after they or their progenitors had been do- 
mesticated. They have been traced through Asia, 
Africa, and the Australian islands; and although 
there are clearly several very distinct species in the 
number, they all retain the fulvous livery, and in 
their wild state none assume the distinctions to 
