MAMMAL SURVEl OF INDIA. 837 



Some Eajputana specimens in the National Collection seem to be inter- 

 mediate hetv^een ferriigineus and true onungo as represented by the present 

 series and the specimens from Khandesh and the Berars. 



Hyjexa hyaena, L. 

 The striped Hyama. 



(For synonymy, see Report No. 1.) 



5 259, 282. Nokania, Outch. 



6 330 ; $ 328. Bhuj, Cutch. 



(Fec?e also Report No. 1.) 



Canis pallipbs, Sykes. 



The Indian Wolf. 



1831. Canis pallipes, Sykes. P. Z. S., p. 101. 



1888. Canis pallipes, Blanford. Mammalia No. 68. 



S 390 ; $ 391. Oharvva, Cutch. 



Vernacular name — Bhagad. {H. H. the Rao.) 



[" The Wolf is common along the North Coast of Cutch especially so in 

 the Bunnee, where he preys on the sheep sent there to graze. I saw a 

 pack of seven at Rhoda Motha, and another of eight near Charwa from 

 which the two specimens were obtained. In the north of the State many 

 sheep are killed by wolves. In the Bunnee, Wolves are said to attack 

 Shepherds occasionally but are easily driven off with sticks. So far as 

 I could learn, Wolves are very rare in the South of Cutch and are 

 unknown in the East." — C. A. C] 



Canis indicus, Hodgs. 



The common Indian Jackal. 



1833. Canis aureus indicus, Hodgson. As. Res. XVIII, p. 237. 

 1888. Canis aureus, Blanford. Mammalia No. 69. 

 $ 245, 248. Rhoda Motha, Cutch. 

 $ 278, 286. Nokania, Cutch. 

 3 314. Bhuj, Cutch. 

 S 375; $ 386. Charwa, Cutch. 

 2 503. Nanda, Cutch. 



{Vide also Report No. 1.) 

 Linnteus in describing aureus writes " nitide flavus .... Descriptio 

 vera animalis etiamnum defecit." He had never seen the animal either 

 dead or alive, but based his recognition of it on an account by Ksempfer 

 of an animal seen by him in the Province of Lar, on the Persian Gulf. 

 While giving a long account of its habits, &c., Ksempfer gave no detailed 

 description of the animal itself, he furnished however a figure of which I 

 give an exact reproduction here. 



