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The Wolf and Hyeena House. 
The Indian Wolf, Canis pallipes, is represented in the first 
division of this house. The Wolf of India is a smaller 
animal than the Wolf of Europe and of Northern Asia, 
Canis lupus , and than the Wolf of the Tibetan highlands, 
Canis laniger . It is widely distributed over India and is 
not uncommon in many districts. The chief supply to the 
Gardens has been from the Gaya District. It is not found 
in the damp region of Lower Bengal, and it does not fre¬ 
quent forest land, preferring a dry open country. It gene¬ 
rally hunts in packs, and Sir Walter Elliot records that 
he had seen t^,e wolf so hunting the gazelle in the Sou¬ 
thern Mahratta country, and he mentions that the ryots 
had a common belief that in the open plains, where there 
is no cover or concealment, they scrape a hole in the earth 
in which one of the pack lies down, and remains hid, while 
the others drive the herd of antelope over him ; and 
this habit noticed by the ryots has been verified some 
years ago by Mr. E. C. Buck who in a letter to “ Nature ” 
quotes Mr. Elliot, B. C. S., Secretary to the Government, 
North-West Provinces, as his authority for the following 
incident:—Mr. Elliot “ saw two wolves standing together, 
and shortly after noticing them was surprised to see one 
of them lying down in a ditch, and the other walk away 
over the open plain. He watched the latter, which delib¬ 
erately went to the far side of a herd of antelopes stand¬ 
ing in the plain, and drove them, as a sheep-dog would a 
flock of sheep, to the very spot where his companion 
lay in ambush. As the antelopes crossed the ditch, the 
concealed wolf jumped up, seized a doe and was joined 
by his colleague. ” A similar habit has been observed in 
the English fox. 
