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THE YENLEE, OR PIED THOUS. 
Thous mesomelas. 
PLATE, XII. 
Canis mesomelas of authors.—Yenlee of the Hottentots.— 
Boutevos of the Dutch Colonists —Chacal du Cap. 
Aut the canines found in a wild state to the south- 
ward of the line, in both hemispheres, approximate 
the foxes in some of their characters or aspect. The 
vied Thous is an example in point, for being some- 
what less in bulk than either of the former, and 
more vividly reddish about the sides and limbs, it 
has been classed with foxes, although the tail is not 
vulpine, and we are assured that the eyes are diur- 
nal. The individual we have seen alive had neither 
the movements nor head of a fox, and the ocular 
disks were always circular, while observed. Of 
three drawings with dimensions taken from diffe- 
rent individuals, one was twenty-five inches from 
nose to tail, the next twenty-six, the third twenty- 
seven. The tails varying with the length of body, 
from eight inches and a half to ten anda half. The 
different locations of dog, jackal, and fox, assigned 
to the species by naturalists, indicates the interme- 
diate position it should occupy ; and the livery or 
