THE HY ANA-DOG. 
CANIS PIcTUS. Dersm. 
Ir is not without much hesitation that we have adopted 
for this animal the generic name of Canis, and referred 
it, in conformity with the example of most of the leading 
zoologists of the day, to the same group with the Wolf, 
the Jackal, and the Fox; from all of which it differs in 
such important particulars as fully entitle it, in our 
estimation, to the rank of a distinct and separate genus. 
To this rank it has, indeed, been already raised by 
Mr. Brookes, under the generic appellation of Lycaon ; 
but as we are not aware that it has been any where 
described under that name, or that any detailed account 
has been given of the characters on which that separation 
