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fo loud that people can fcarce hear one another fpeak: 
during day they are fllent, and retire to their dens. 
Dellon fays that they are fometimes tamed, and kept 
among other domeftic animals. 
This animal is vulgarly called the Lion’s provider, 
from an opinion that it rouzes the prey for that bad 
nofed quadruped. The fa< 5 t is, every creature in 
the foreft is fet in motion by the fearfull cries of the 
Jackals; the Lion, and other beads of rapine, by 
a fort of infcindl, attend to the chafe, and leize fuch 
timid animals that betake themfelyes to bight at the 
noife of this nightly pack. Defcribed by Oppian * ** 
under the name of Auk©^ or yellow wolf ; who 
mentions its horrible howl. It is ftrange, that an 
animal fo common in the Levant , fhould never have 
been brought over to be defcribed by any modern 
Naturalift. The defcriptions yet remain very ob- 
fcure; and there is ftill great uncertainty, whether 
the J ackal, and the Adive of M. de Buff on , are the 
fame, or different animals. A ftuft fkin of one in 
the AJhmolean Mufeum (in very ill prefervation) had 
none of that brilliant color afcribed to it by Belon. 
May, as M. de Buff on conjectures, be the ©w? of 
Arifiotle who mentions it with the wolf, and fays 
that it has the fame internal ftruCture as the wolf, 
which is common with congenerous animals. The 
Tboes of Pliny may alfo be a variety of the fame 
animal; for his account of it agrees with the mo¬ 
dern hiftory of the Jackal, except in the laft article f. 
* Cync%. III. 296. 
** Hip. An. lib. II. c. 17. lib. ix. r. 44^ 
t 'Tboes, Luporum id genus ell procerius longitudine, brcviatc 
crurum diffimilo, velox faltu* venatu vivens, innocuum hotmni . Lib. 
yiii. c. 34. 
Cauls 
