JACKALS AND THE DINGO 
yellowish or “golden” one, traceable in a great varicty of color 
disguises from Greece to Ceylon and northern Burma, in all 
sorts of country and even within the confines of large cities. 
More than others, the Indian jackal associates in packs, which 
use most effectively their native craft to drive from its covert, 
and in the precise direction they wish, any luckless axis, black- 
buck, or similar game, upon which they fix their attention; 
meanwhile one or more jackals have crept far ahead, and lie 
ready to spring upon the wearied and badgered quarry the 
moment the maneuvering pack has driven it within reach.™ 
“Tn the towns and villages of India the jackals act as efficient scaven- 
gers. Occasionally they take to killing poultry or lambs or kids; and 
Jerdon states that weakly goats and sheep often become their prey, while 
wounded antelopes are tracked down and killed. Among vegetable foods 
the chief seems to be the so-called ber fruit; but Professor Ball reports 
that in certain districts jackals do enormous damage to the sugar planta- 
tions, biting ten or a dozen canes for one they eat. Like the civet cat in 
Java, jackals in the Wynaad district of Madras feed on the ripe fruit of 
the coffee plant.” 
With the jackals we come to the end of the great genus Canis, 
but there remain in the “‘thooid” section of the family several 
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DiNGO. 
other animals which demand mention, such as the queer little 
raccoon dog of China; the dingo” of Australia, which there 
both runs wild and is kept as a pet among the blackfellows, by 
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