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DR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON THE GENUS CYON. [Feb. 18, 



2. Cyon ALPINUS. 



Colour normally white or whitish, at least in winter ; hair very 

 long and woolly. M" large. 



I subjoin certain osteological dimensions of Cyon javanicus with 

 comparisons between it and Canis lupus var. occidentalis and 

 C. /nmiliaris var. dingo. 



^ By ovalion I mean the middle point of a line extending from the hinder 

 margin of one foramen ovale to the hinder margin of the other. 



- See P. Z. S. 1882, p. 465. By sphenoideum I mean the junction of the 

 basi- and pre-sphenoids, which is generally distinguishable in the basis cranii 

 of the Cnnidrp. 



