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from north to south. In this connection, finally, I would ask you to 

 recollect the instinctive antipathy between the Canklce and Felidcs 

 and the well-known fear that the FelidcB show for packs of dogs, 

 panthers especially taking to trees when chased even by three or 

 four village pariah dogs, although they turn the tables on the pariah 

 when they meet him by moonlight alone. 



Mr. Saunderson (p. 275) says : " From what I have seen of their 

 style of hunting, and of their power of tearing and lacerating, I 

 think there can be no doubt of their ability to kill a tiger ;" and he 

 mentions some facts in corroboration of this. Captain Baldwin 

 (p. 126, compare pp. 19 and 108) says that he only twice met with the 

 wild dog, once near Mussoorie and once in the Lullutpore jungles. 

 He too relates '^well-authenticated anecdotes of a tiger and a bear 

 having been attacked by wild dogs, and both coming off second 

 best in the battle ; the result being that the former was torn to 

 pieces, and the latter so cruelly mauled that he could only have held 

 out a short time longer, had the fight continued to the end.'^ 



Once a pack of nine of these dogs hunted some pig that his 

 beaters had turned out ; they went by him with their noses to the 

 ground. 



This coincides with what I have observed in my young Cyon 

 wild dog — she seeks her food not more by sight than by scent ; often 

 when she does not see clearly where a bit of meat has fallen she noses 

 it out with great quickness and then snap ! and it is gone. Her 

 sight is improving in this respect — at first it was very bad. Baldwin 

 quotes a Bombay sportsman who shot a couple of junglee hidas 

 that were '' very thin and long in the leg,'' but other observers 

 notice the shortness of leg of these animals as compared with 

 true Oanis. I have not been struck by any very marked difference 

 in this respect between Cijon and Canis, but the forelegs of Cyon do 

 seem shorter than those of the ordinary red pariah ; and Cyon has 

 a habit of stooping in an inquiring way, with his back somewhat 

 rounded, when facing you. His body is very greyhound-like and 

 muscular. 



Colonel Kinloch gives a good picture of a stuffed head of the 

 wild dog, a Tibetan specimen from near Leh in Ladakh, where these 

 dogs are not uncommon, and are known as Hazi. He says that the 



