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THOUS TOKLA, Nosis, 
Tulki of the Persians, and probably the Tokla of Abyssinia, 
Is a larger canine than the 7. anthus, distinguished 
from the rest of the group by the predominance of 
rufous woolly hair, interspersed on the sides and 
covered on the back with long coarse black hairs ; 
the belly is snow white and the ears jet black ; the 
tail, rather short, is of the colour of the woolly fur, 
but with a patch at the root, and the tip of shining 
black hair. It howls with a moaning voice, and is 
confounded by Olearius with the common jackal. 
In Abyssinia the Tokla’s bite is much feared, and is 
evidently the same as the Toqua of the Hottentots, 
which the Dutch of the Cape interpret by the name 
of wolf, and Mr Kolbe as well as Sir J. Barrow 
seem to have regarded as the Lupus vulgaris. The 
long hair on the back of the Athiopian Lycaon of 
Solinus may be the black hair above mentioned, and 
this ridge is not singular in Africa. We shall find 
it again in the Megalotis faindicus, offering a counter- 
part to the red Aguara wolf in Tropical America. 
