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NATURAL HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF DOGS. 
scent, resembling that of a fox-hound, intermingled with snarling 
yelps. Dr. Daniel Johnston saw a pack attack a wild boar. The 
Dholes have been sometimes domesticated, and employed in the 
chase. Captain Williamson admits their fleetness, but says they 
are not to be depended upon for coursing, being apt to give up 
during a severe run, and turn aside to goats or sheep. They are, 
however, valuable in hog hunting. The true Dhole, we understand, 
is a rare species, and seems to occur chiefly in the Rhamghany 
hills, and sometimes in the Western Ghauts. The wild dog of 
Ceylon ( Canis Ceylonicus of Shaw) is likewise a Dhole. 
The Pariah dogs of India now demand a brief notice. It has 
been long a vexed question whether these Pariah races were a 
mongrel breed, descended from domesticated species of a higher 
class, or the offspring of indigenous wild animals, themselves native 
to the jungles. Naturalists (misled, it may be, in this, as in other 
instances, by the brilliant, though not seldom foundationless, dis- 
courses of Buffon) have generally inferred as a fact, that where 
wild and domesticated races, nearly allied, were found to occur in 
the same country, the former were only the emancipated or be- 
wildered descendants of the latter. 
“ In the present case, however, the wild Pariah is found in nu- 
merous packs, not only in the jungles of India proper, but also in the 
lower ranges of the Himalaya mountains ; and is possessed of all 
the characteristics of primeval independence, without having as- 
sumed the similitude of wolves or jackals, which systematists seem 
to think must be the result of returning from slavery to freedom. 
There is nowhere any notice taken that they burrow, apparently 
resembling in this respect the rest of the present group : they 
associate in large numbers, and thereby approximate jackals; but 
their voice is totally different. In form, the wild Pariah is more 
bulky than the last mentioned species, but low in the legs, and 
assuming the figure of a turnspit; and the tail of a middling 
length, without much flexibility, is more bushy at the end than at 
the base. The ears are erect, pointed, and turned forward ; the eyes 
hazel; the density of fur varies according to latitude, and the 
rufous colour of the whole body is darker in the north than in the 
south, where there is a silvery tinge, instead of one of black, upon 
the upper parts. They are said to have five claws upon all the 
feet, but whether there be a molar less in the lower jaw is not 
known. This species is in general so similar to the domestic, that 
if it were not ascertained that they existed in great numbers in the 
wildest forests at the base of the Himalayas, all possessing uniform 
colours, they would be considered, in the lower provinces, as of 
the domestic breed, and are often mistaken for them when they 
follow armies. The domestic Pariahs, however, are less timid, 
