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deficient. Teats as many as fourteen, or more than in any 

 of the proper dogs ; scull by its uniform arcuation along the 

 culmenal line, and by its shorter, stronger jaws, declining 

 from canine models towards feline. Parietes amply swollen 

 with moderate cristae; or, we may add thereto the follow- 

 ing points : — 



Odour and aspect of lacalius, but the ears and tail usual- 

 ly larger, the brow and eye bolder, and the muzzle blunter. 

 Shoulders and croup level. 



Type — C. primaevus. Asiatic Society's Transactions, vol. 

 xviii. Specific character — Wild dog with double coat of wool 

 and hair, which is more or less feathered on the cheeks and 

 hams ; large hairy-soled feet ; large erect ears, and very 

 bushy straight tail, reaching half way from the hough to the 

 sole : deep rusty above, yellowish below and on insides of 

 ears and of limbs and on lips : chin, bridge of nose, and 

 terminal half of tail, blackish. 



Length from snout to rump 36 inches, mean height 20, 

 length of head 8| ; of tail with hair 16|. 



Nepal, March, 1841. B. H. Hodgson. 



Note on the Skeletons of the Buansu, the Pariah Dog, and 

 Jackall, taken from several specimens of each in Mr. 

 Hodgson's Collection. By Dr. A. Campbell. 



Skull. — The longitudinal and transverse ridges are more 

 prominently marked in the dog and jackall than in the buansu. 

 The cerebral cavity is consequently in the buansu less 

 compressed laterally. It is also of greater capacity, especi- 

 ally in the occipital region. The muzzle of the buansu is 

 shorter than in either of the others, and the general contour 

 of his skull approaches somewhat to the feline cast ; short- 

 ness of muzzle explicable if not caused by the absence of a 

 second molar behind the great one. The lower jaw is more 

 massive in the buansu, and its rami, at their articulation 



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