216 TIE COMMON JACKAL. 
to tail, at 29 inches, and the height at 173 inches, 
which is certainly an error of inadvertence, or of 
the press, unless he confounded in his account of 
the species some other animal, such as Thous 
authus. The Canis Syriacus of Hemprich and 
Khrenberg was measured indeed from a young 
specimen. It was 2 feet 2 inches in length; the 
tail 8 inches? the height at the shoulder 9, and 
at the croup 10 inches. The colour whitish-fulvous, 
with a blackish line on the back; the head, out- 
side of the ears, and feet, fulvous; the inside of 
both these, and the abdomen, whitish; there was — 
a yellowish bar on the breast; and the under fur 
was buff. Yet this insignificant animal appears to 
be now the only representative of the wolf in Syria 
and Palestine. 
The Grey Jackal. In 1814 or 1815 there was 
exhibited in London a couple of animals of this 
group, said to be from Senegal, and their figures 
were taken both by the late Mr Howitt and by 
ourselves. They were remarkably long in the 
body, and low limbed; the nose long and pointed ; 
a circle round the eyes, the cheeks, lips, and sides 
of the nose, white; the ridge of the nose, the fore- 
head, neck, throat, and shoulders, black ; and base 
of the tail wavy grey, mixed with black ; the base 
of the ears lively fulvous, the tips black and the 
inside white; lower parts of the flanks reddish- 
