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DR. J. MURIE ON THE INDIAN WILD DOG. [Julie 4, 



larly on the fore limb, there was a tendency, though a very indistinct 

 one, to whitish spotting. The points of the hairs here and there 

 throughout the body, by an addition of pigment, showed a dispo- 

 sition towards rather than absolutely possessed black tips. 



Fig. 1. 



Profile, from nature, of the bead of the female Indian Wild Dog, presented to 



the Society by Capt. Gildea, 1867. 



p. Pit or fossa of the tragus. 



Of those features marking race, the tail was moderately length- 

 ened, dark and full below, as in Jackal or Wolf, and not with the 

 great round brush of the Fox. The eye had a certain obliquity; 

 but the pupil, as far as I could ascertain, was round. Ears large, 

 erect, and hairy. The deep pit or fossa, situate between what may 

 represent helix and antihelix, which is large in Dogs and smaller in 

 Foxes, was in our specimens of considerable dimensions. I omitted 

 to record whether a cutaneous supracaudal gland existed. This 

 structure, Mr. Bartlett assures me, is common to the Wolves, Jackals, 

 and Dogs, and ordinarily is situate two or three inches from the root 

 of the tail. The Canidce notoriously sniff each other at this spot. 



Regarding the feet, the subjoined figures display their character- 

 istic points. 



The female possessed fourteen teats, a number exceeding that 

 generally met with in domestic Dogs, where from eight to ten is 

 most usual. 



There was nothing characteristic in the tongue ; but of the soft 

 palate I made the following memorandum : — Length of the ridged 



