JACKAL. 309 
Catulus captus facile cicuratar, et in hospitio 
adultus blanditur; homines l«te adspiciendo, 
caudam motitando^ corpus prosternendo, vel in 
dorso se projiciendo, levi murmure ganniendo. 
Dominum distinguit a reliquis; ad nomen pro- 
prium ipsi impositum attendit; in mensam invita- 
tus insilit; contortuplicatus dormit; lambendo bi- 
bit; scybala dura cacat; ad latus mingit; in so- 
cietate canum pacificus anum eorum odorat. Odor, 
quern Schacala per glandulas anales spargit, nee 
teterrimus, ut Dumon voluit, nec moscho analo- 
gus, ut alii voluerunt, liunc eo vulpis mitiorem et 
illo canis foetore instante tempestate erumpente, 
vix deteriorem esse sentio." 
That the Jackal and Dog readily intermix or 
breed, appears from various testimonies^ accord- 
ing to the Count de BufFon^ in his chapter on the 
degeneration of animals. Mr. G. cannot consi- 
der the Cauda recurmta as an essential character 
of the Dog, but thinks it may have originated 
from cicuration. The Jackal^ he thinks, with 
many other authors, may probably be the Thos of 
Aristotle. 
Mr. G. saw no Jackals of the exact measure 
given by Gmelin, but, in general, of twenty-six 
or twenty-seven Paris inches from the nose to the 
beginning of the tail. The general colour, he 
adds, is a dirty fulvous, rather blacker on the back, 
and yellowish-white beneath. On each knee is 
generally a black patch, and the tip of the tail is 
of the same colour. 
