Dhole of Ceylon, Chryseus ceylonicus.
Dhole of Ceylon, Chryseus ceylonicus. Unknown species. Drawn from a stuffed specimen in Holland said to have come from Ceylon. Probably Cuon alpinus. Handcoloured engraving on steel by William Lizars from a drawing by Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith from Sir William Jardine's "Naturalist's Library: Dogs" published by W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh, 1839.
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