504 DIl. J. E. GRAY ON THR CANID.E. [Jaae2."), 



There is another skull, 816 i (fig. 3, p. 503), from Tunis, that is 

 somewhat intermediate in width ; it wants the occiput. 



816 e. 816 6. 816 n. 



in. lin. in. lin. in. lin. 



Length of skull 6 7 6 .5? fi 2 



Width at zygomata 4 2 3 9 3 6 



at foramen -- — — 



before orbits 16 15 13 



of palate at outer hinder edge of sectorial t«eth 2 .5 2 1 2 1 



5. Lupus aureus. Jackal. B.M. 



Skull — nose sloping on the sides, broad in front of orbits. The 

 sectorial tooth is placed obliquely in respect to the line of the pre- 

 molars and tubercular grinders. 



Canis aureus, Linn. S. N. i. 59 ; Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. 

 39, t. 3; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B.M. 58 ; F. Cuv. Mamm. Lith. t. ; 

 Blainv. Osteogr. t. 4 (skull, var. barbarus), t. 6 (var. mareoticus, 

 skull rather wider). 



Canis barbarus, Shaw, Zool. i. 54. 



Barbary Jackal, Pennant, Quad. i. 2G0. 



Lupus aureus, Kampf. Amcen. Exot. 413, t. 407. f. 3. 



Canis micrurus, Reichenbach. 



Thos, Pliny. 



Le Chacal'et V Atlive, Buffon, H. N. xiii. 255, Suppl. iii. 112, t. If). 



SchaMl, S. G. Gmelin, Reise, iii. 80, t. 13 ; Giildenst. in Nov. 

 Com. Petrop. xx. 449, t. 10, 



Jackal, Penn., Shaw. 



Hab. India; Ceylon (2?e?V/). 



The several skulls in the British INIuseum differ from each other. 

 1G3 c is very wide at the zygomatic arches. Length 5 inches 4 lines, 

 width 3 inches 3 lines. The aperture of the internal nostril is wide, 

 8 lines, much wider than in other skulls. The skull of a Jackal from 

 Barbary, sent to the Zoological Gardens by E. W. Drummond Esq., 

 lG3rf: — length 5 inches 1 line, width 3 inches 1 line; aperture of 

 internal nostril 6 lines. 



163 c. Nepaul. Presented by B. Hodgson, Esq. 



A skeleton with skull in the British JNIuseum, 163 k {Canis aureus, 

 part., Gerrard), from the Zoological Gardens is peculiar. Length 

 5 inches 4 lines, width 2 inches 2 lines, internal nostril 5 lines. The 

 skull like that of Lujnis aureus ; but the coronal ridge is rather 

 dilated or vase-shaped in the middle of the length ; and tiie uj)per 

 hinder tubercular grinders rather larger in comparison with the other 

 grinders. 



6. Lupus pallipes. The Landgak. B.M. 



Coronal crest linear, high ; upper sectorial teeth large, elongate. 

 Canis pallipes, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 101; Gray, List Mamm. 

 B.M. 58 ; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. 82. 



Canis lupus, Hodgson; Elliot, Madras Journ. x. 101. 



Saccalius indicus, Hodgson, MS. 



Hab. Nepaul (i/orfr/sow) ; InAm (Oldham, 163 e). 



