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CORSAC DOG-FOX. 
Cynalopex corsac. 
PLATE XVI. 
We think with Monsieur Desmareis, that this 
species should be placed with the diurnal canines ; 
and upon comparing one with the Pondicherry 
Jackall, above described, we found the whole ex- 
ternal form so very similar, that in the present 
group appears to be its true location. 
Of the smaller wild canines of Asia we have as yet 
a very imperfect knowledge. The Jackal is found 
to have invaded a part of Russia; and the Corsac, 
it seems, is discovered far to the southward of the 
Himalaya mountains. Although we doubt of its 
being the Nongi hari of Malabar, the several indi- 
viduals we have seen living and stuffed in London, 
Paris, and elsewhere, indicate more than one race 
to exist in India of diminutive Jackals with long 
tails, and differing from the Corsac dog-foxes and 
Buffon’s figure of Jsatis in nothing but shades of 
colour. The Chacal adive of the same author, re- 
ferred to Corsac, differs, however, materially ; the 
legs being much ‘shorter, the tail likewise scarcely 
