188 The Carnivora. 
rushed in to the unclean feast. It was now that they did 
what I have never read of wild dogs, or indeed of any other 
wild animals, doing. Only three of the party commenced 
feeding. The other four, as if it were only part of their 
usual routine, trotted off into the jungle, and, during the 
whole time their friends were feeding, they were engaged in 
a ceaseless patrol of the adjoining neighbourhood, crossing 
and re-crossing each other at a distance of from eighty to 
one hundred yards from the lil. 
“Presently, one of the three seemed to have taken the 
edge off his appetite, for he left the bullock, rolled and 
rubbed his nose in the grass, and then, trotting off on his 
tour ‘of duty, ‘relieved the nearest vedette, who ran in to 
enjoy the carrion. And so, in turn, each one got his share, 
no doubt enjoying the feast the more from the knowledge 
that friendly sentinels were on the alert, and that he would 
get timely warning of any approaching danger. Their system 
of outpost duty is, in fact, unrivalled, and our best light 
infantry might with advantage have taken a lesson from 
them.” 
Cases are frequently quoted by good observers, of foxes and 
wolves hunting their game towards an ambush where one 
of the number lies in wait to spring upon it. A friend of 
Dr. J. G. Romanes’ sent him an account of concerted action 
of a very elaborate character. His friend was watching in 
a tree, near a lake in India, to shoot a tiger which was 
expected to come to drink there. About midnight, a large 
axis deer came out of the dense jungle, and, after sniffing 
the air as though it suspected the presence of an enemy, 
began drinking, and continued to do so for a long time. 
When quite swollen with water, it turned to enter the cover 
but was met by a jackal, which, with a sharp yelp, turned it 
back. 
The deer appeared much startled, and ran along the edge 
of the lake for some distance; and, on again attempting to 
enter cover, was met by a jackal and kept in the open. This 
