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between the interstices of the hair and ascending with it for two-thirds of 

 its length. But on the neck and cheeks you have none of the more or less 

 composed set of the hair elsewhere, those parts being shaggily dressed in 

 hair, the set of which is irregular, but mostly outwards or porrect from 

 the skin. The cheeks have in consequence the appearance of being 

 whiskered; and the apparent volume of the head is thus greatly increased. 

 The hams posteriorly are somewhat feathered; the belly and legs scarcely 

 so. The hair generally has a four-fold annulation of colour, from the base 

 thus ; whitish, black, deep rusty, black — the first ring being very small — 

 the second and third large and equal — the fourth, small. The visible effect 

 of this distribution and proportion of the colours, aided by the reddish blue 

 of the wool, is, that the animal appears to be of a full ferruginous red; the 

 two basal rings being invisible and the terminal one scarcely noticeable 

 from its smallness — not to mention that it exists only on the dorsal surface, 

 and not on the sides ; nor, of course, below, where the colour of the animal 

 is yellowish and no rings are found. The tail towards its base is ringed 

 with pale rusty and blackish — towards its tip the hairs are almost or 

 wholly blackish. 



The jackal, which is furred in a very similar manner to the Budnsu, 

 has his hair likewise ringed in the same way. But owing to the largeness 

 of the terminal black ring, and to tlic very pale tinge of the penultimate 

 red one, the general effect is very different. The jackal in consequence 

 appears to be pepper and salt coloured with a tawny tinge ; whilst, as 

 already observed, the Ih'idnsu shows dvv\) rusty red. Let us now recapitu- 

 late the colours of the animal in the ordinary mode of description. Whole 

 superior surface, willi ontsides of ears and of limbs as fara^tiic wrists and 

 hocks, deep rusty red, spiiuk!c(l with hlack on the l)ark : ^\ hoir nilcnor 

 surface, with insidcs of the cars and Innh-, ami al-o the lips ami jaw^and 

 feet, yellowish: chin darktMunl ami reddish : l)rulu(M)t' i he nose hrownisii : 

 terminal half and more of the tail, hlackish. liristlcs ot'iho lips, checks and 



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