292 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



The JACKAL. 



WE beg leave to make our acknowledgments to 

 Mr Pennant for the drawing of this animal, 

 which he allures us was drawn from the life ; and we 

 doubt not, therefore, its being a faithful reprefentation. 



The fpecies of the Jackal is diffufed, with fome varie- 

 ty, through almoft every part of Afia ; and is found in 

 Barbary, and other parts of Africa, as far as the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Although it is one of the mod numerous of all the 

 wild animals in the Eaft, there is fcarcely any lefs known 

 in Europe, or more confufedly defcribed by natural his- 

 torians. 



They vary in fize. Thofe of the warmed climates are 

 faid to be the largeft. They are of a reddifh-brown co- 

 lour.--— The fmaller Jackal is about the fize of a Fox j 

 and its colour is a bright-yellow. 



That the Jackal is nearly allied to the Dog, has been 

 clearly proved, from a circumftance related by Mr Hun- 

 ter, of a female Jackal taken on board an Eaft-Indieman 

 at Bombay whilft a cub, and being impregnated by a 



