flight, one of these weak creatures may fall in the rear and 

 come to grief. Steadily they keep their ground, and when the 

 avenging farm-dogs approach, open on either side to admit 

 them, and then as suddenly closing up again, tear them limb 

 from hmb, and, devouring their carcasses, trot off morrily. 



THE DHOLE. 



The Dhole, or Kholsun, inhabits the western frontiers of 

 British India. Its colour is bright bay, deeper on the muzzle, 

 ears, feet, and tip of tail, than elsewhere. It is under two feet 

 in height, and rather slim in build. It is a very shy animal, 

 abiding in the depths of the jtmgles, and never venturing near 

 the abode of man. 



Like the other wild dogs it forms packs, and hunts down its 

 game, both large and small. The dhole is a brave dog, and 

 has no fear even of the terrible tiger. " From the observations 

 which have been made," writes a naturalist, " it seems that hardly 

 any native Indian animal, with the exception of the elephant 

 and the rhinoceros, can cope with the dhole ; that the fierce boar 

 falls a victim, despite his sharp tusks ; and that the swift deer 

 fails to escape these persevering animals. The leopard is toler- 

 ably safe, because the dogs caimot follow their spotted quarry 

 among the tree-branches, in which he fortifies himself from 

 their attacks ; but if he were deprived of his arboreal refuge, 

 he would run but a poor chance of escaping with life from 

 his foes. It is true, that in their attacks upon as powerfully 

 armed animals as the tiger and the boar, the pack is rapidly 

 thinned by the swift blows of the tiger's paw or the repeated 

 stabs of the boar's tusks ; but the courage of the survivors is 

 so great, and they leap on their prey with such ajidacity, that 

 it surely yields at last from sheer weariness and loss of blood." 



THE BTJAKSUAH. 



This animal, found throughout ITorthern India, in habit 

 closely resembles the dhole. Like the latter animal, it is shy, 

 bold, and hunts in packs. Unlike the dhole, however, it is 

 capable of uttering a sort of bark, which, though quite distinct 

 from that of the domestic dog, can be described by no other 

 term. It is a bulkier dog than the dhole. When captured 

 during its puppy-hood, the buansuah may be trained to obey 

 its keeper, to help him in the chase, and to come and go at 

 command. . Having, however, succumbed to one human being, 

 the animal evidently regards it as by no means a natural ion- 



