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WILD DOG OF NATOLIA, 
Thous acmon, SMITH. 
PLATE XIV. 
Perhaps the Schib of Syria. 
Tuts animal has been confounded with the Turkish 
fox and with the jackal, and unless carefully ob- 
served would be mistaken for a country dog. The 
specimen whence our drawing was taken measured 
about seventeen inches at the shoulder, and was in 
length from nose to tail two feet eight inches; the ; 
head resembled that of a sharp-nosed vermin-dog, 
but the forehead is broader and flatter; the ears 
small and triangular; the girth of the body and 
neck full; the hair of the forehead, neck, back, and 
sides coarse ; the tail short, but the basal part had 
erisped hair; the remainder longer and divided into 
five rings, three of which were black and two rust 
colour; from the nostrils to beneath the eyes, and 
from thence somewhat irregularly downwards to 
between the fore legs, the colour was white. AI 
the rest of the head, body, hams, sides, belly, and 
upper part of the fore legs, including all the coarse 
hair, was rufous, buff, white, and sepia, mixed into 
a hoary fawn-coloured grey ; from the nape of the 
neck down the back, including the base of the tail, 
