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SENEGAL THOUS, 
Thous Senegalensis. 
PLATE XIII. 
Chacal de Senegal, F’. Cuv. 
Tue able French naturalist, last quoted, considers 
the Senegal Thous to be a variety of his Canis an- 
thus, but an artist seeing both would hardly admit 
more than the approximation of the two species. 
The animal is at least an inch higher at the shoul- 
der, and several inches longer ; the ears are larger ; 
the head more dog-like; the tarsi higher; the tail 
shorter, less hairy ; and the form more gaunt. The 
colours differ likewise; the nose and forehead are 
greyish-buff; the throat and under parts white; 
there is no black ring round the neck, nor the 
stippled arrangement of black points on the back ; 
that part is buff and greyish, with four or five 
cloudy bars running in wavy lines downwards on 
each side, the space between with fainter greyish 
undulations; the darkest bars are on the croup, 
where a sixth passes down to near the hocks and 
upwards again towards the groin, leaving a whitish 
space at the buttock and in front of the tligh; the 
