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WILD DOGS. 
but when within a few yards he thought better of it and 
turned back and recommenced his howlhig, which brought 
up another wolf to his assistance, and both howled and looked 
extremely savage and seemed very much inclined to make> 
another dash after the antelope ; but the horsekeepers just then 
came up and the wolves bolted. 
The natives believe that if the blood of a wolf is shed on 
any cultivated land, that land becomes barren, 
Our Indian wolf {Cams pallipes) is a distinct species 
from the European wolf, being somewhat smaller, the height 
at shoulder about 26 inches ; length of head and body 37 
inches ; tail 17 inches. It is of a hoary rufus or dirty reddish 
white with some of the hairs tipped with black. Tail thin 
and bushy, slightly black tipped; ears rather small. Bland- 
ford says that the fur is short with little or no woolly under- 
lying fur. 
WILD DOGS. 
Wild dogs have decreased considerably in the kist few 
yearSf but 1 occasionally came across them in my rambles. 
When they do appear, they become a regular pest to the 
sportsman as well as to the natives, as they drive away all 
the deer from the district ; the sambur has a most intense 
dread of these poaching rascals and will leave a locality 
for months after being hunted by them. The first I killed 
was in 1855, when shooting 011 the Annamullies. Half way 
between Peramba Col urn and Takady, I saw an animal cross 
the path which 1 thought was a leopard. I looked keenly 
into the jungle, and in the grass some eighty or ninety paces 
off saw something red, it looked so large that I thought it 
