312 CEYLONESE DOG. 
shorter, and the nose more slender. A drawing 
made from the skin of this animal in the Ashmo- 
lean Museum at Oxford was communicated^ as 
before mentioned, by Mr. Pennant to the Count 
de BufFon, which he caused to be engraved in 
his third supplemental volume. 
CEYLONESE DOG. 
Canis Ceilonicus. C. cinereo-Jla'vescens, naso elmgato, Cauda 
longa acuminata, nnguibus incurvis. 
Yellowish-grey Dog, with lengthened snout, long sharp-pointed 
tail, and crooked claws. 
Chien sauvage de Ceylon. Vosmaer descr. 
Ceylonese Dog. Pennant Quadr. i . p. 266. 
This species is a native of Ceylon, but no par- 
ticulars relative to its manners or history are 
known. It was described by Mr. Vosmaer from 
a stuffed skin. He informs us that it was a little 
larger than a common domestic cat, measuring 
about twenty-two inches from nose to tail: the 
tail itself sixteen inches, gradually tapering to the 
point. The ground colour is a yellowish-grey, 
with a cast of brown on some parts, owing to the 
longer hairs which are of that colour : the feet are 
strongly tinged with brown; and here and there 
along the back the brown cast seems to form a 
kind of stripes or rays: the belly is cinereous: 
the hair on the whole animal is closish, but soft 
to the touch: the head is long and pointed; the 
