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The skins purchased at Kashghar are rather large ; the hair is long and appears to me 

 rather softer than in most wolf-skins ; between the shoulders it is nearly 5 inches in length. 

 The under-fur is ashy-grey and woolly. Black tips to the hair abound on the forehead, 

 back, upper part of tail, thighs and shoulders, being thickest along the middle of the back. 

 Ears outside brown with black hairs mixed : inside there are white hairs with black mixed 

 near the margins. The black line down the fore-leg is distinct. Two skins are more fulvous, 

 the others more grey ; one of the latter is smaller than the rest, and has more black on the 

 back and tail, whilst the muzzle, which is rufous in the other skins, is in this case blackish. 

 I think this may be the skin of a younger animal. 



Hayward 1 states that two kinds of wolves are found in Eastern Turkestan. One is pro- 

 bably the present species ; the second may be either the animal noticed below, or Canis ( Cuoii) 

 alpinus of Pallas, which is said by Severtzoff to be met with in Western Turkestan, but not 

 at lower elevations than 5,000 feet. 



14. Canis sp. 



1. Skin without skull purchased at Kashghar. 



This skin belongs to a small species, rather larger than the common jackal. The general 

 colour is very like that of a wolf, and the fur about equally coarse and rather long. The 

 prevailing tint is black, mixed with pale rufous and white, along the back and upper surface 

 of the tail ; pale rufous on the flanks, limbs, anterior portion of the abdomen and under 

 the tail. There is a distinct black line down the front of each foreleg. The upper part of the 

 head is rufous, mixed with whitish and black, the forehead being greyer owing to the pre- 

 dominance of white tips to the hairs, which are chocolate-brown at the base. Whiskers black ; 

 upper lip, chin and throat white. Hairs on the outside of the ears short, brown, with short black 

 tips, inside longer and white. On the back of the neck the hairs are three to four inches 

 long, ashy at the base, then darker, the terminal portion for about an inch rufous-white, the 

 extreme tips black. On the middle of the back the hair is more than four inches long, at the 

 base brownish-ashy mixed with white ; the white extends only about an inch, then, for about 

 1£ inches, the hairs are chocolate-brown, the terminal portions rufescent and black, the black 

 tips much longer than on the neck. On the tail the extreme basal portion of the hair is 

 ashy, the remainder rufescent, except the tip, which is black. Sides the same but without 

 black tips, the blackish area on the back bounded by a fairly defined line on the sides. The 

 tip of the tail is quite black, owing to all the hairs having long black tips. The under- 

 pays are greyish-white, slightly mixed with rufous on the breast and anterior portion of the 

 abdomen, and with black tips to many of the hairs on the breast, the under-fur being ashy 

 throughout. 



The tail is short as in the jackal, but more bushy. Ears moderate, much shorter in pro- 

 portion than in foxes or wolves. Eeet larger than in C. aureus. 



I cannot identify this with any known canine animal. It is too large, as already remarked, 

 for a jackal, and has much longer, fuller fur. It is too small for C. alpinus of Pallas, 

 which, moreover, is a far more rufous animal with a proportionally longer tail, 2 and is said 



1 Jour. Koy. Geog. Soc, 1870, xi, p. 134. 



* Compare Schrenck, Keis. Amur., vol. i, p. 48. 



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