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ki 
gather softer tiff 1 ' at Kashghar are rather large ; the hair is long and appears to me 
Lie Under-fur is f i** mos ^ W °1 f -skins ; between the shoulders it is nearly 5 inches in length. 
' ac ‘k, upper part%^A^ an< ^ W0 °Uy- Black tips to the hair abound on the forehead, 
"ai’s outside brow° v, ^igBs an( l sBoulders, being thickest along the middle of the hack. 
a ° ar the margins pi 1 ^ Bairs mixed : inside there are white hairs with black mixed 
e °Biers more <> r 16 Bnc down the fore-leg is distinct. Two skins are more fulvous, 
and tail whif f ° ne * a ^ cr * s smaller than the rest, and has more black on the 
Biink this mav 1 . ^ ie muzzle, wBich is rufous in the other skins, is in this case blackish. 
Wayward 1 st f " skin ° f a y° lu iger animal. 
)a kiy the present^ 1 ’ GS t W0 kinds of wolves are found in Eastern Turkestan. One is pro- 
a h?inus of p a p a 8 B| icles > the second may be either the animal noticed below, or Cams ( Cuon) 
a t lower elevate * ^ 1C B is said by Severtzoff to be met with in Western Turkestan, hut not 
nations than 5,000 feet. 
14. Canis sp. 
^Bis ki 
'nl°Ur is Very to a small species, rather larger than the common jackal. The general 
la t °t a wolf, and the fur about equally coarse and rather long. The 
k, mixed with pale rufous and white, along the hack and upper surface 
, xuere - Us . on ike flanks, limbs, anterior portion of the abdomen and under 
is ruf 0us S fV ls jmct black line down the front of each foreleg. The upper part of the 
'in without skull purchased at Kashg 
har. 
Of fr . O tln t ii 
t^Wale 
0n iiuauce of wV^^^ whitish and black, the forehead being greyer owing to the pre- 
^I'P'T lip 5 ® B >s i° the hairs, which are cliocolatc-brown at the base. Whiskers black ; 
l(B s ’ iuside l 0n ,, (> . Uoat; " Bite. Hams on the outside of the cars short, brown, with short black 
( Jp” as hy at the* if w hite. On the back of the neck the hairs are three to four inches 
Inis' f ' m °' tips black 1011 barker, the terminal portion for about an inch rufous-wliitc, the 
hi'ownisk. a ' ■ U B le middle of the back the hair is more than four inches long, at the 
^ 4.1 . *■' mi Xed "With wlllfp • fllD 'nrlnfn nvf nr> /I o aiiItt olirrnl on 111 nn oK/nvt 
y" the haiiv w ^ e 5 the white extends only about an inch, then, for about 
, niU( ii lons'er n S ai ° c B° c °late-brown, the terminal portions rufescent and black, the black 
remaii 1 — v_m tue tan cue extreme uasai portion oi tue nan is 
tin tte blakl rufesceat, except the tip, which is black. Sides the same but without 
p ai ^ ( h the tail if f** '• area on ^Be hack hounded by a fairly defined line on the sides. The 
a btlf are ^ re yish-w]p* Ul,e ■ owing to all the hairs having long black tips. The under- 
th • ° nien » and W jfi 1 ?’ s B?Btly mixed with rufous on the breast and anterior portion of the 
rp-. «/ 7 o *7 
p .he tail is 
r ' u than in f 0xp as ln the jackal, hut more bushy. Ears moderate, much shorter in pro- 
f 0r 1 ? ann °t identifv°ti w 0l ^ eS * Feet larger than in C. aureus. 
a 3 ac kal, ail( | , ^ Bis with any known canine animal. It is too large, as already remarked, 
C 1 moreover if aS ,. muc B longer, fuller fur. It is too small for C. alpimis of Pallas, 
’ ■ a ar more rufous animal with a proportionally longer tail, 2 and is said 
Jour. Roy. Geog. Soc., 1870, xi, p. 134. 
Compare Sehrenck, Reis. Amur., vol. i, p. 48. 
