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 INTRODUCTION.
 Society, in February 1837, are correct, the vertebras
 of the back, loins, and sacrum diflfer, between the…
       
          
        96
 INTRODUCTION.
 tion.*
 Writers more imbued with the spirit of
 system than with the phenomena they have to
 investigate and…
       
          
        106
 INTRODUCTION.
 they be without a known prototype, we might form
 a system as philosophically admissible as our present…
       
          
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 THE CANINE FAMILY
 and France, hydropliobia attacks wolves and foxes
 as well as the dogs ; both the first mentioned are…
       
          
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 THE CANINE FAMILY
 and races that have since been nearly or entirely
 extirpated.
 This opinion is strengthened hy the…
       
          
        129
 SUB-GENUS I. CHAON.
 SECTION I. LUPUS.
 THE WOLVES.
 Lupus, Linn.—Sub-genus Chaon, Ham. Smith.
 The typical wolf of Europe…
       
          
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 THE WOLVES.
 ately devour him. At, the close of the appalling
 famine which desolated India, now more than a
 quarter of a…
       
          
        136
 THE WOLVES.
 rally repel the attack, killing one or more of the
 enemy. Single horses fight a wolf by striking with…
       
          
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 THE TRUE DHOLE.
 zle, back of the ears, and feet sooty. From this
 description the animal differs from Chryseus primw-…