140 MAMMALIA. TERJE. Deo-. 



244 9. Jackal. — 7. Cams aureus 7. 



Has a ftraight tail, and the body is of a pale tawny yellow colour. Schreber, iii. 365. 

 tab. xciv. 



Ganis flavus. Briff. quad. — Lupus aureus. Kaempfer, am. exot. 413. t. 407. f. 3. Raj. quad. 

 174. Klein, quad. 70. — Vulpes indicus. Valent. muf. t. 452. — Adil. Belon. obf. 167. — Schakall. 

 S. G. Gmel. it. Ruf. iii. 80. t. 13. Guldenftedt, nov. com. Petrop. xx. 449. t. x. Penn. hiit. of 

 quad. n. 145. Sm. Buff. vii. 255. 



Inhabits the warmer regions of Afia, and in Barbary : According to Mr Pennant, it is found in all 

 the hot and temperate parts of Alia, and in moft parts of Africa. — This animal is the ©«,- of Ariiiotle 

 and Aelian, the Avx.0; %xi>Sof and xv^'^ °f Oppian, and the Thoes of Pliny. It lies hid, during the day, 

 in the forefts and mountains ; and feeks for prey, in the night, in packs of two hundred, or more : It 

 is much given to theft, walking flowly and cautioufly with the head louching, but runs off with great 

 fwiftnefs when detected : Will not attack adults of the human fpecies, but fometimes devour;, chil- 

 dren : Preys on fmall quadrupeds and birds, and eats of various kinds of food, fuch as roots and ripe 

 fruits, and will even dig up the ground in fearch of dead carcaffes : Copulates, like dogs, in the 

 fpring ; and the female brings from five to eight cubs, after going about a month with young. It goes 

 about only during the night, making a hideous noife ; for, when one begins to howl, every one within 

 hearing joins in the difmal cry, which refembles the howling of Dogs intermixed with a kind of 

 barking : By this barking and noife the other beafts of the foreft are fet in motion, and join in the 

 chafe of Stags or other anjmals ; in the mean time, Lions and Tigers lay in wait for the flying game, 

 and, feizing it by furprife, devour the prey which was roufed and followed by the pack of Jackals ; 

 and thefe are forced to wait around till the tyrant of the foreft, having fatisfied his appetite, leaves 

 the remains of his feaft to them, who, from this circumftance, have been named the Lion's provider. 

 The head is fomewhat ihorter than that of a Fox, with a blunter nofe ; black lips ; fomewhat loofe, 

 fhort, erect, pointed ears, which are white, and hairy within ; the whole animal has a general refem- 

 blance to the Fox, but the body is rather thinner, and compreffed, and the legs are longer ; the tail 

 is thickeft of hair in the middle, and tapers both ways ; each foot has four toes, which are covered 

 with hair, even to the claws, and a fifth toe, or dew-claw, placed high, on the infide of each fore 

 foot ; the colour of the upper part of the body is a dirty yellow, or tawny, which is mixed with black 

 on the back ; the lower parts are yellowifh white ; the tail is of the fame colour with the back, and 

 is tipt with black ; the legs are of an unmixed tawny brown, having fometimes a black fpot on the 

 knees : It is twenty-nine inches long from the nofe to the origin of the tail ; and eighteen or nine- 

 teen inches high at the fhoulders. The Jackal has much the nature of Dogs, with a ftrong mufky 

 fmell •, when taken young, it acquires the fame- affectionate manners ; and is by fome late authors fup- 

 pofed to be the original ftock of all our various kinds of Dogs, which have been altered by climate, 

 and intermixture with fome other fpecies. See Penn. liift. of Quad. 244. 



245 10. Cipe Jackal. — 8. Cams Mefomdas. 11. 



Has a ftraight tail, and a rutty coloured body, with a black band on the back. 



Erxl. mam. 574. Schreber-, iii. 370, tab. xcv. . 



Jackhals. Kolben, Cape. 150.— Capefch, Tenlie, or Kenlie, of the Hottentots. Penn. hift. of 



etazd. a. 146". 



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