MONOGRAPH OF THE CANIDAE, MIVART 1890

Se DOGS, JACKALS, WOLVES, AND FOXES; MONOGRAPH OF THE CANIDiE BY GEORGE MIVART, ST F.R.S wrrn woodcuts, and 45 coloured plates DRAWN FROM NATtTRE BY J O KEULEMANS AND HAND-COLOURED LONDON: 11 11 rORTEK, IS ^R1^X•ES STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE, W., AND DULAU & CO., 37 SOHO SQUARE, W 1890 rat*' PREFACE Many now years have elapsed since any general work was published on the subject to which this known and describe volume is dedicated and leading the species Its object is to make varieties of existing wild Canidie For this purpose the rich and unrivalled stores of Canine animals accumulated most in liberally the- British Museum and kindly placed cases species rightly and at the History have been disposal of the author Tiic writer cannot authorities of that Institution all of Natural hope to by the have in determined the vexed questions as to the limits of varieties and those of synonymy Mjcans of his studies, by full references to He trusts, however, by the literature concerning each species, and by carefully drawn figures from nature, and sometunes from new life, to have at least provided a fresh starting point whence explorations into the Natural History of the group may fruit- F'KKFACE fullv tnkc place To farilitatc ihu be typo -m of ungiiMl (intwii, when no than fourteen repmrnUtiuii* oi uirh less |»uuiblf, tbr rtiial csrrlul t- :>t li' irpr* ba«T breo na- and 1^' u figured The author tlctim him l>y his tcicnlific to r^ frtrndi F.K.S Dr Gunlbcr F It S and Kkill with v«iii Keulemans Iluntcotr Chilvorth, Apnl LIHh, IHtO n rrmrd \m npcctall/ , T>r F.R.S Mr Oldfield TIi hui» r lie also dc«irrs to muxu « a P - ! «rl.icT aii i Mr It ht< crttrfti) iw i'm>% iiiô0 Platf The Common Wolf I ''• ^^^- IV- V^ \ >, „ \ aricty , „ yar'wty chanco >j „ Indian variety ,1 „ American variety occidentalh The Abyssinian I AVolf The Manei* Kll ,, •>] I fr (CbauK I7li fulrtcaodtu ({"uon> I71» tu (('>oni 170 fu (Ganb \, 87 06 (VulpwKWrrkloni (CaniaK 1:.'! •ilwurtUi (Vulpr*) 14^ gnrilia (Oidm), 60 i^lvimlnianui ((ani»), siiriii («rr_v rntrrrianiu (Cania) rriffiUiii (>airul}c• pModst '.' rrtku* :M '-' mutit' pMUIw(VBlp*ôt till" , K & 1* fUacooBlike I BiIo(irtt*(r«iiU), >.\ _ Northrru I>c« 134 KriMn! Kl t'2 " > ^., •»! I>hol«' l^•l nut'ilu* |('M)Ut, Xyrl.r rot ni aid«^ IM — It anil r«baMt txxTiii 67 mi Ku_ raUlaii* c o- , crniii|:i IMC Otocjon t (CMk), • •: i i 179 -xn, H (O»oo), 179 1.31 (C'Toni 179 (Ouii*), xzirtii c«ffrr - l:£:i 111 ' Oxyp Ottuhua, 8& • a02 JO-J .35 fWaliiu korvo*, 36 barbwa, tmrvM (Canisl, xxxriii 8ide^«thp(d Jkck*! 49 INDEX 21; Simenia simensis, 18 viverrinus (Xyctereutes), 134 viverroides (Canis), xxxviii simensis (Canis), 18 Small-eared Dog, 62 vulgaris (Vulpes), 92 Small-toothed Dog, 76 Southern Dhole, sticte Vulpes adusta, 49 79 alopex, 92 (Lupus), beugalensis, 127 Striped-tailed Dog, 81 canus, 1'32 sumatrensis (Cuon), 179 cinereo-argentatus, 104 sussii (Canis), xxxviii corsac, 117 syriaeus (Canis), 35 crucigera, 92 edwardsi, 142 temerarius (Canis), ssxviii ferrilatus, 121 Thibetan Fox, 121 flaveseens, 93 fulvus, 93 Thous cancrivorus, 57 griffithij, mesomelas, 45 hodgsoni, 127 tricolor (Lyeaon), 196 troglodytes (Canis), xxxviii 123 griseus, 66 TigriUo, 85 hoole, 93 True Fennec, 147 japonica, 93 typieus (Lyeaon), 196 lagopus, 108 leucopus, 123 lineiventer, 93 Urocyon littoralis, 85 virginianus, 85 urostictus (Canis), 81 Utah (Vidpcs), 93 littoralis, 85 macrurus, 93 melanogaster, 93 mesomelas, 45 minimus zoarensis, 147 vaJidus (Canis), xxxviii montanus, 92 variabilis (Canis), nipalensis, 93 variegatus (Canis), 41 pennsylvanica, 93 velox (Canis), 104 persicus, 123 (Vulpes), 104 venatica (Cynogale), 190 (Hyfcna), 196 venaticus (Icticyon), 190 (Lyeaon), 196 vetulus (Canis), 66, 76 virginianus (Canis), 85 pusiUus, 123 velox, 104 virginianus, 85 vulgaris, 92 Utah, 92 xanthura, 127 vulpes (Canis), 92 (Urocyon), 85 (Vulpes), 85 Viverra cancrivora, 57 wheelerianus (Canis), xxxviii Wolf (Abyssinian), 18 21C INDKX Wolf (Antarctic) 26 (ManMik :il (Prsirir), :Vt H7 /.-nl*, lanU (I'oaimun), ' - ! 17 .1, ttmtr-a*i» '>pcu»>, aaiilhar* (Vul|irCI^ BSD LIOK CorKT, TLUtt ITKEET ... evidence on the subject over the character think, pupil of the eye the practically we either linear or oblong, or round, according to the species * As the we deem result of our studies, we offer the. .. forwards through the inner wall it of the bulla, and opens anteriorly close to the inner side of the groove tube for the Eustachian Upon emerging from § the anterior end of the canal, the artery turns... If Wolf on the one hand, and of the Fox on the other, be correct, then C lupus, C riilpes, both the Old species, and C lagopm are New and the which are species Of Worlds common to the remaining