WILD DOG OF NATOLIA. 905 
the hair, forming a broad streak, stood up crisped. 
This appearance may be accidental, although a 
second specimen somewhat more rufous and larger 
had likewise the hair of the back standing up at the 
points.* The first was in the museum of Prague ; 
the second, in private hands, came from Scanderoon. 
A reverend friend, who resided long in Asia Minor 
and is well known in his literary capacity, commu- 
nicated to us a part of his journal where he had 
noted the discovery of a suspicious looking animal 
in a chalk quarry about six miles from Smyrna, 
much superior in size to a jackal, but not a wolf; 
he is however in doubt whether it is this species or 
one of the Chiyseus beluel before named. The na- 
tives of Natolia informed him that it was likely he 
had seen the animal they call the Great Jackal. 
As the characters which Oppian assigns to his 
acimones appear to agree with the animal under 
consideration in the short neck, broad shoulders, 
heavy limbs, small eyes, and sharp anterior part of 
the head, we think the name of Acmon may be 
applied to distinguish it from others. We are even 
inclined to believe that this race of animals is 
intended, where the ancients relate that a kind of 
wolves damaged the fishing-nets of the inhabitants 
on the Canopian Gulf of the Palus Meotis, unless 
they were allowed a proportion of the produce 
obtained from the water by the fishermen.tT 
* This character of the hair seems to be in the notice of 
Acmon in Oppian, 
+ Stephanus. 
