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f ul; fawns at. the appearance of its maftcr and defends hiui) runs 
before him on his joumcV; and if the road divides looks back ; 
docile, fecks for what is loll, watchful by night, gives notice 
of the approach of flrangers ; watches over what is committed 
to his care ; drives home cattle from the field, keeps them 
within bounds, and guards them from wild Ijcalls ; points 
•Alt game, and brings what is killed to its mafler •, is made to 
turn fjiits, and draw ; begs at table, and when it has lloleti 
any thing {links away with its tail between its legs ; cats en- 
vionfly, looking oblitjue ; domineers over weaker ones ; 
abhors beggars, bites flrangers ; licks wounds ; howls ac 
mufic ; bites a (lone throwr at it ; (links, and is fick before 
a florin ; is troubled with worms ; becomes mad and commu- 
nicates the difbrder by bating; when old grows blind and 
gnaws itielf ; howls if empyreuraatlc oil is rubbed on the tail ; 
is afllicled with gonorrlniea, is banifl'.ed as unclean by the 
Mahometans ; has an cxtjuifite fenfe of foiell. 
Ihad carinate on the crown ; lowtr lip lud, the fidcs dentate, 
naked; rows of zchijlitrs 5-^6; nojbils ttrrned outwards 
into a lemilunar furrow ; ears, the upper margin reflcfted, 
poflerior doubled, anterior three-lobed ; marts on the face 
hairv, 7; futures of the fur 8; teats 10, 4 on the bread ; 
feet lubpalmate. 
^■^pus. Tail bent iInr•^rds. H'olf. 
Inhabits £«7'ojfie, Afia, Africa, and North America: bunts in 
packs, and dedroys cattle ; fufpicious, being hardly heard in 
the woods, fearful of a rope drawn along the ground ; will 
not pafs through a door but leaps over the fence ; dreads the 
found of a trumpet ; exquifite in the fenfe of fmelling ; pa- 
tient of extreme hunger and cold ; devours man and even its 
own fpeclcs, howls in the night, and is dedroyed by the 
Lichen Vidpinum female gravid 10 weeks, brings 5 — 9 
y'oung, which are blind at the birth; 
Head long; pointed, ears ereft, fharp; tailhnfhy, pendu- 
lous, black at the tip ; head and neck cinereous, hocly pale 
brown tinged with yellow. 
1. Yellow. Inhabits France and Germany. 
2. White. Inhabits Ruffia. 
3- Black. Inhabits Canada, 
4* Grey ftxiped with black. Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 
^^'!^kanus Tail fmboth, bent downwards'; body cinereous, variegated 
with brown ftripes and tawny. fpots. Mexican IVolj, 
2- Uniformly white. 
Inhabits the warmer parts of Mexico, 
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