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DESCRIPTION 



OF THE 



WILD DOG OF THE HIMALAYA. 



By B. II. HODGSON, Esq. 



KATHMANDU. 



Cams Prim^vus. (Mihi.) 



The Budnsu of the Nipalese. Habitat, The whole of the Sub-Himalayan 

 ranges from the Satlej on the West to the Brahmaputr on the East. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wild Dog, ivith six molars only intheloiver jatv, double coat, hairy -soled feet, 

 large erect ears, and very bushy straight tail, of medial length, deep rusty 

 colour above, yellowish below. 



The Dog, man's first and best ally among the brutes, cleaving to us from 

 the beginning, accompanying us in all our settlements in every climate of 

 the habitable globe, and submitting his line plastic form and faculties to 

 be moulded at will by oui- wants and our caprices, has been so thorough- 

 ly changed by inlluences very similar to those whit h have operated upon 

 ourselves, that his original, like uur s, has been supposed to have now 

 become inscrutable. 



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