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DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE CANIDjE. 



[June 25, 



line ; nasals produced behind the hinder upper edge of the maxil- 

 laries. 



Canis {familiaris, var.) sumatrensis, Hardwicke, Linn. Trans, xiii. 

 235, t. 25 ; Raffles, Linn. Trans, xiii. 249. 



Canis sumatrensis, F. Cuv. Diet. d'H. N. viii. 557. 



Cuon sumati-ensis, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. B. M. 81. 



Hab. Sumatra {B. M.) ; Malacca {Carlton, B. M.) ; Java (Les- 

 chenault, B. M.). 



The skull figured by De Blainville (Osteogr. t. 8) is that of a 

 domestic Dog, perhaps from Java. The skull in the British Mu-. 

 seum is very like that of the Cuon alpinus. A skeleton sent from 

 Paris, and marked " Canis javanic us" (160e), is a Cuon; and the 

 skull is so like that of Cuon sumatrensis that I cannot discover any 

 difference between them. I suppose this is the animal named Canis 

 rutilatis by Boie, and C. hodophylax, C. hodophilax, and C. hip- 

 pophylax by Temminck, in the ' Fauna Japonica' called Jamainu, 

 said to have small, erect ears, and to be of the form and size of a 

 Wolf. 



4. Cuon dukhunensis. Dhole. B.M. 



Skull — nose slender, elongate ; nasal bones the same length. 

 Forehead much raised above the nose-line. 



Canis dukhunensis or Kolsum, Sykes, P. Z. S. 



Cuon dukhmensis. Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 3/ ; Gerrard, Cat. 

 of Bones of Mamm. 81 . 



Canis dhola. Gray, Griff. A. K. 



Canis familiar is, var.% Elliot, Madras Journ. x. 100. 



Wild Dog or Dhole, Williamson, Wild Sports. 



1 Dhole, Wooler. 



Hab. India; Deccan {Sykes, B. M.). 



The skull, in the British Museum, from Col. Sykes is of a young 

 specimen changing its milk-teeth. There is a second skull in the 

 Museum (158 6), received from the Zoological Society under the 

 name of Canis dukhunensis ; but it appears to be rather the skull of 

 C. primcevus. 



Length from nose to occipital condyle 



of nose from front of orbits 



of lower jaw 



Width of braincase, over ears 



of forehead between orbits . . . 



of nose at preorbital foramen . 



at back of zygomatic arclies . . . 



Height of jaw at front of orbit 



C pri- 

 mmvus. 



1 

 1 



4 

 3 



All adult but 162 a. 



158 c. 

 in. lin. 



6 9 

 2 9 

 4 

 6 

 4 

 6 

 1 

 3 



C.al- 

 pinvs. 



l61a. 

 in. lin. 



7 

 2 11 

 5 9 

 2 7 

 6 

 9 

 3 

 3 



C. sum aire }u9is. 



160 ff. 

 in. lin. 



(5 3 

 2 7 

 4 11 



2 4 

 1 3 



1 5i 



3 8"" 



2 11 



160 c. 

 in. lin. 



G 3 



2 8 



5 2 



2 4 

 1 2§ 

 1 5i 



3 11 

 3 3 



C. dukhu- 

 nensis. 



162 ff. 

 in. lin. 



6 6 



3 



4 10 

 2 2 



1 

 1 

 3 



2 11 



