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Show 50 I -DR. -I- K- GRAY ON THK CANID E. [Jlllie 2.1, There is another skull, 816 b (fig. 3, p. 503), from Tunis, that is somewhat intermediate in width ; it wants the occiput. -ic,-. 8166. 816a. in. lin. in. lin. in. lin. Length of skull 6 7 6 5? 6 2 Width at zygomata 4 •« *3_J *a_° at foramen ""* 1 „ before orbits 1 ° J *' J ? of palate at outer hinder edge of sectorial teeth 2 .> - 1 - i 5. LUPUS AUREUS. Jackal. B.M. Skull-nose sloping on the sides, broad in front of orbits. The sectorial tooth is placed obliquely in respect to the line of the premolars and tubercular grinders. Canis aureus, Linn. S. N. i. 59 ; Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. I. 39, t. 3; Grav, Cat. M a m m . B.M. 58 ; F. Cuv. M a m m . Lith. t. ; Blainv. Oste'ogr. t. 4 (skull, var. barbarus), t. 6 (var. mareoticus, skull rather wider). Canis barbarus, Shaw, Zool. i. 54. Barbary Jackal, Pennant, Quad. i. 260. Lupus aureus, Kampf. Amoen. Exot. 413, t. 407. f. 3. Canis micrurus, Reichenbach. Thos, Pliuy. Le Chacal et VActive, Buffon, H. N. xiii. 255, Suppl. in. 112, t. 16. Schakall, S. G. Gmelin, Reise, iii. 80, t. 13 ; Giildenst. in Nov. Com. Petrop. xx. 449, t. 10. Jackal, Penn., Shaw. Hab. India; Ceylon (Reid). The several skulls in the British Museum differ from each other. 163 c is verv wide at the zygomatic arches. Length 5 inches 4 lines, width 3 inches 3 lines. The aperture of the internal nostril is wide, 8 lines, much wider than in other skulls. The skull of a Jackal from Barbary, sent to the Zoological Gardens by E. W . Druinmond Esq., \63 d:-length 5 inches 1 line, width 3 inches 1 line; aperture Of internal nostril 6 lines. 163 c. Nepaul. Presented by B. Hodgson, Esq. A skeleton with skull in the British Museum, 163 k (Canis aureus, part., Gerrard), from the Zoological Gardens is peculiar. Length 5 inches 4 lines, width 2 inches 2 lines, internal nostril 5 lines. The skull like that of Lupus aureus ; but the coronal ridge is rather dilated or vase-shaped in the middle of the length ; and the upper hinder tubercular grinders rather larger in comparison with the other grinders. 6. LUPUS PALLIPES. The Landgak. B.M. Coronal crest linear, high ; upper sectorial teeth large, elongate. Canis pallipes, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 101; Gray, List M a m m. B.M. 58 ; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of M a m m . 82. Canis lupus, Hodgson; Elliot, Madras Journ. x. 101. Saccalius indicus, Hodgson, M S . Hab. Nepaul (Hodgson) ; India (Oldham, 163 e). |