JACKAL. 
serve to account for the confusion which pre- 
vails in the history of this animal ; and from 
which, perhaps, no description yet published 
is altogether free. 
" From the waitings of travellers," s?-ys 
BufFon, " itrappears that the Jackals every 
where vary in size: that in Armenia, Cilicia, 
Persia, and all) that part of Asia called the 
Levant, where this species is very numerous, 
troublesome, and noxious, tliey are commionly 
as large as our Foxes, only their legs are 
shorter; and their colour Is a brilliant yellow, 
from which circumsttlnce, they are called the 
Yellow or Golden "\Volf. In Barbarv, the 
Kast Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, and the 
other provinces of Africa and Asia, this species 
seems to have undergone several variations : in 
these warm countries, they are large ; their 
hair is rather of a brownish red than of a fine 
yellow; and some of them are of different 
colours." Hence we see the injustice of 
too hastily condemning travellers, for giving 
different colours to the same species of 
animals. 
Buffon 
