JACK ALL. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Cams aurexjs. Cauda recta, corpore pallide fulvo. Linn. Syst. 
Nat. Gmel. 1. p. 72. 
Tail straight, body of a tawny yellow colour. 
Jackall. . . Sm. Buff. v. 7* P- 255. pi. 241. Penn. Hist. 
Quadr. \. 1. p. 261. Bew. Quadr. p. 292. 
Shaw Gen. Zool. pi. 79- 
These animals are found in almost every part of 
Asia, and in most parts of Africa from Barbary to 
the Cape of Good Hope. They very much re- 
semble the fox in the form of the body ; but the 
head is not so lung, and they have a blunter nose. 
The legs are longer than those of the fox, and the 
body is more compressed. They are represented 
as great thieves, and bold enough to enter a tent, 
and steal whatsoever they can find from the sleep- 
ing traveller. They hunt in packs of forty, fifty, 
or even two hundred, and continue like hounds in 
full cry from evening until morning. Their vo- 
racity is so great, that when prey is scarce they will 
eat the most infected carrion ; and will even scratch 
up the dead, and devour the putrid carcases. To 
prevent the depredations of the jackalls the in- 
