184 CANID^. 



Cuon, Sodysmi ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 498. 



The small hinder tubercular grinders of the upper and lower jaw 

 deficient. (See Blainv. Ost^ogr. t. 9 ?) 



1. Cuon primsevus. (Buansuah.) B.M. 



Skull — nose short, broad, swoUen ; forehead broad, convex, gra- 

 dually shelving from the nose-line; nasals produced behind the 

 hinder upper edge of the maxiUaries. 



Canis primsevus, Hodgson, P. Z. 8. 1833, p. Ill ; Blainv. Osteogr. 



Oanis, p. 49, t. 8 (skuU), t. 9 (teeth) ; Law. ^ Bazin, Ann. d'Anat. 



et Phys. i. t. 8. f. 4 (skull) ; Hodgson, Trans. Asiat. Soc, , t. ; 



Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 57; P. Z. S. 1868, p. 498. 

 Cuon primsevus, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. B. M. p. 81. 

 Oanis nimalayanus. Lesson. 



Hah. Nepal (Hodgson, B.M.) ; Cashmere (Ahhotf), 



2. Cuon alpinns. B.M. 



Canis alpinus, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 34 ; Van der Hoeven, 

 Kais. Akad. d. Wiss. vii. 1. 17 (teeth) ; Gray, Cat, Mamm. B. M. 

 p. 57 ; Schrench, Amurland, p. 48. 



Cuon alpinus. Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 498; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of 

 Mamm. B. M. p. 81. 



Hab. Siberia, Altai Mountains (Brandt) (skuU, B. M.). 

 SkuU very like that of the preceding species, if different. 



8. Cuon somatrensis. B.M. 



Skull — ^nose short, broad, swoUen, slightly raised above the nose- 

 line ; nasals produced behind the hinder upper edge of the maxil- 

 laries. 



Canis (familiaris, var.) sumatrensis, Hardmcke, Linn. Trans, xiii. . 



p._235, t. 25 ; Bajks, Linn. Tram. xiii. p. 249. 

 Canis sumatrensis,-i^. Cuv. Diet. d'H. if. viii. p. 567. 

 Cuon sumatrensis, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. B. M. p. 81 ; 



Gray, P. Z. 8. 1868, pp. 498, 499 (skiUl). 



Hah. Sumatra (B.M.); Malacca (Carlton, B.M.); Java (Les- 

 chenauU, B.M.). 



The skuU figured by De BlainvUle (Osteogr. t. 8) is that of a 

 domestic Dog, perhaps from Java. The skull in the British Mu- 

 seum is very like that of the Cuon alpimis. A skeleton sent from 

 Paris, and marked " Canis javanicus " (160 e), is a Cuon ; and the 

 skuU is so like that of Cuon sumatrensis that I cannot discover any 

 difference between them. I suppose this is the animal named Canis 

 rutilans by Boie, and O. Jiodophylax, C. hodopMlax, and G. hip- 

 pophylax by Temminck in the ' jFauna Japonica,' called Jamainu, 

 said to have small, erect ears, and to be of the form and size of a 

 Wolf. 



