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<emphasis bold="true" box="[860,1059,278,305]" italics="true" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Canis familiaris</emphasis>
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var.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[1122,1245,278,304]" italics="true" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">papuensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[869,1151,325,346]" italics="true" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (ser.1)</emphasis>
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3(3): 242. (?Jan–?
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<date box="[1317,1425,325,347]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345" value="1879-04">April 1879</date>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,1013,368,392]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Common name</emphasis>
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.?Papuan Village Dog.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,999,413,438]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Current name</emphasis>
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.
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<taxonomicName authority="Linnaeus, 1758" authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1758" box="[1011,1353,413,438]" class="Mammalia" family="Canidae" genus="Canis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="68" pageNumber="345" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="familiaris">
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<emphasis box="[1011,1182,414,438]" italics="true" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Canis familiaris</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Linnaeus, C" box="[1187,1353,413,438]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345" refId="ref137371" refString="Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Tome 1. Holmiae: Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542" type="book" year="1758">Linnaeus, 1758</bibRefCitation>
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; following rationale of Jackson & Groves (2015: 288) and
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Jackson
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">et al.</emphasis>
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(2017)
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; also see Dwyer & Minnegal (2016) for a review of the relationship between New Guinean village and feral dog populations.
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<typeStatus box="[839,944,576,600]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Holotype</typeStatus>
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. A.3652, designated here. Skull (
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), sex not recorded, purchased from Andrew Goldie, registered
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<date box="[839,1013,635,659]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345" value="1878-12">
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<collectingDate box="[839,1013,635,659]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345" value="1878-12">December 1878</collectingDate>
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. Collection date and collector not given in the
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specific locality is entered against this specimen, but an earlier register entry indicates that it was part of a large collection from the “Port Moresby district” purchased from Andrew Goldie. In his original account, Ramsay states that the specimen was obtained on Andrew Goldie’s second expedition to New
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. No associated skeletal elements or skin have yet been located in the collection but it is possible that the
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was originally a mounted skeleton, as “1 dog, from New
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” is listed amongst mammal specimens articulated during
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the
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report (
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).
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<collectingMunicipality box="[1280,1422,958,982]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Alternatively</collectingMunicipality>
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, the mounted specimen may have been a specimen acquired from another source, possibly from Miklouho-Maclay. The skull has the registration number written in what is likely to be
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<collectingCounty box="[841,970,1075,1099]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Troughton’s</collectingCounty>
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handwriting.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,960,1123,1147]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Condition</emphasis>
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. Cranium missing upper right 1st and 2nd premolars (possibly lost while the animal was alive), missing medial side of right auditory bulla, anterior tips of nasal bones eroded, hole in occipital. Left dentary has two holes in ramus, right dentary complete.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,1199,1285,1310]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Cranial measurements (mm)</emphasis>
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. A.3652: GL, 165.25; ConL,154.36; BasL, 147.39; NasL, 50.78*; NasB, 17.22; UC1–C1 (alv.), 30.25; APV, 10.58; PAL, 82.42; UPM (alv.), 16.73; UMR (alv.), 16.32; ZB, 88.73; POC, 24.86; BUL, 19.95; MB, 58.74; DL (condyl.), 123.28; LPM (alv.), 10.14; LMR (alv.), 29.92. [* = estimate, nasal tips broken].
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,994,1480,1504]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Type locality</emphasis>
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.
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<collectingRegion box="[1012,1256,1480,1504]" country="Papua New Guinea" name="National Capital" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Port Moresby district</collectingRegion>
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(
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), Central Province,
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<collectingCountry box="[1032,1242,1510,1534]" name="Papua New Guinea" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Papua New Guinea</collectingCountry>
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.
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<paragraph blockId="68.[838,1467,1557,1992]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,967,1557,1581]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Comments</emphasis>
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. Volume 3 issue 3 of the
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.</emphasis>
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is the only issue for which
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<bibRefCitation author="Fletcher, J" box="[1197,1362,1587,1611]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345" pagination="533 - 536" refId="ref129679" refString="Fletcher, J. J. 1896. On the dates of publication of the early volumes of the Society's Proceedings. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (series 2) 10 (4): 533 - 536. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 24365" type="journal article" year="1896">Fletcher (1896)</bibRefCitation>
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could not determine the publication date; it was probably between
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<date box="[839,1047,1646,1670]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345" value="1879-01" valueMax="1879-05-31" valueMin="1879-01-00">January–May 1879</date>
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, based on publication dates of conjoint issues.
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<paragraph blockId="68.[838,1467,1557,1992]" lastBlockId="70.[166,794,152,264]" lastPageId="70" lastPageNumber="347" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">
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Previous assessments of the status of this taxon have presumably been made without examination of Ramsay’s original material that has remained unreported in the AM Collection since its description.
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<bibRefCitation author="Troughton, E" box="[1182,1371,1792,1816]" pageId="68" pageNumber="345" pagination="93 - 98" refId="ref148095" refString="Troughton, E. [L. G.] 1971. The early history and relationships of the New Guinea Highland dog (Canis hallstromi). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96 (2): 93 - 98." type="journal article" year="1971">Troughton (1971)</bibRefCitation>
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reported that Ramsay’s specimen had been destroyed but we are confident that the dog skull labelled A.3652 is the specimen reported by Ramsay. Although he did not specify the collection locality, sex, or provide any measurements of the specimen, Ramsay stated that it was obtained from Goldie and his wording implies a single specimen. Only one “
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<emphasis italics="true" lastPageId="70" lastPageNumber="347" pageId="68" pageNumber="345">Canis papuensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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” is listed in the AM specimen acquisitions for 1878, purchased from Goldie and listed, remarkably, under “Collection of fish specimens from New
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<collectingCountry box="[592,669,210,234]" name="Guinea-Bissau" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">Guinea</collectingCountry>
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(in spirits)” (
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<bibRefCitation author="Ramsay, E" box="[173,342,240,264]" pageId="70" pageNumber="347" pagination="11 - 15" refId="ref142749" refString="Ramsay, E. P. 1879 c. Appendix VIII, Specimens purchased. In Report of the Trustees for the year ending 31 December, 1878. Australian Museum, pp. 11 - 15. Sydney, NSW: Thomas Richards, Government Printer." type="book chapter" year="1879">Ramsay, 1879c</bibRefCitation>
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).
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Figure 28. AM A.3652, holotype skull of
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<emphasis box="[560,715,1928,1950]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="346">Canis familiaris</emphasis>
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var.
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<emphasis box="[763,859,1929,1950]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="346">papuensis</emphasis>
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. (Photography by Stuart Humphreys).
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Specimen A.3652 was registered in
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<date box="[548,717,285,309]" pageId="70" pageNumber="347" value="1878-12">December 1878</date>
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as part of a large consignment of specimens in spirit purchased from Goldie; these were entered in the register under the heading “Collection of spirit specimensAndrew Goldie not in the best state” and many were later marked as “destroyed”. Taken along with Ramsay’s comment that the dog specimen was received from Goldie in a poor state of preservation in spirits, these entries may have influenced
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<bibRefCitation author="Troughton, E" box="[525,713,490,514]" pageId="70" pageNumber="347" pagination="93 - 98" refId="ref148095" refString="Troughton, E. [L. G.] 1971. The early history and relationships of the New Guinea Highland dog (Canis hallstromi). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96 (2): 93 - 98." type="journal article" year="1971">Troughton (1971)</bibRefCitation>
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to state that Ramsay’s
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<typeStatus box="[332,426,520,544]" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">holotype</typeStatus>
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was no longer in the collection. However, A.3652 was actually marked as being transferred to the Palaeontology Dept. (no date given) where it was found in 2012 during preparation of this paper. Troughton (1957) initially treated
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<emphasis box="[412,519,638,661]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">papuensis</emphasis>
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as a
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<emphasis box="[571,722,637,661]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">nomen nudum</emphasis>
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but he later equivocated and even commented that the name had been ignored by most authors (
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).
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<paragraph blockId="70.[164,794,741,882]" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">
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The ratio zygomatic breadth/condylobasal length (87.8/
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<quantity metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.685" pageId="70" pageNumber="347" unit="mm" value="168.5">168.5 mm</quantity>
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) of 0.52 for A.3652 falls below the range 0.64–0.74 given for
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<bibRefCitation author="Koler-Matznick, J & Brisbin, Jr, M" box="[279,602,800,824]" pageId="70" pageNumber="347" pagination="109 - 118" refId="ref134761" refString="Koler-Matznick, J., I. L. Brisbin, Jr, M. Feinstein, and S. Bulmer. 2003. An updated description of the New Guinea singing dog (Canis hallstromi, Troughton 1957). Journal of Zoology (London) 261: 109 - 118. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0952836903004060" type="journal article" year="2003">
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Koler-Matznick
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<emphasis box="[462,520,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">et al.</emphasis>
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(2003)
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</bibRefCitation>
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for New
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<collectingCountry box="[716,794,800,824]" name="Guinea-Bissau" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">Guinea</collectingCountry>
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Singing Dogs “
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Troughton" authorityYear="1957" box="[327,472,829,853]" class="Mammalia" family="Canidae" genus="Canis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="70" pageNumber="347" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hallstromi">
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<emphasis box="[327,345,829,852]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">C</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis box="[356,472,829,853]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">hallstromi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis box="[472,479,829,853]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">”</emphasis>
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and it is also below 0.61–0.62 given by those authors for Papuan village dogs.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="70.[164,796,904,1337]" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">
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Ramsay stated that his knowledge of this taxon, including its small body size and inability to bark, drew from the observations of Morton and Broadbent about Papuan dogs. Although it is not known who collected the
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<typeStatus box="[628,719,992,1016]" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">holotype</typeStatus>
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during Goldie’s expedition, it is possible that the specimen came from a moderate to high elevation in the Owen Stanley Range behind Port Moresby, given that collecting occurred quite early over a wide range of altitudes (
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<bibRefCitation author="Moore, C" box="[441,697,1109,1133]" pageId="70" pageNumber="347" pagination="39 - 127" refId="ref139377" refString="Moore, C., and S. Mullins. 2012. Andrew Goldie's memoir: 1875 - 1879. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Culture 6: 39 - 127." type="journal article" year="2012">Moore & Mullins, 2012</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<bibRefCitation author="Morton, A" pageId="70" pageNumber="347" pagination="65 - 84" refId="ref139469" refString="Morton, A. 1885 a. Notes of a trip to the Islands of Torres Straits and the south-east coast of New Guinea. Proceedings of the Geographic Society of Australasia, New South Wales and Victorian Branches. 1: 65 - 84, 3 pls." type="journal article" year="1885">Morton, 1885a</bibRefCitation>
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). In an account of his work with Goldie,
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<bibRefCitation author="Morton, A" box="[633,795,1138,1162]" pageId="70" pageNumber="347" pagination="1 - 2" refId="ref139518" refString="Morton, A. 1885 b. Notes on New Guinea - III. The Mercury (Hobart) XLVI (4715): 4, col. 1 - 2, 31 March." type="journal article" year="1885">Morton (1885b)</bibRefCitation>
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indicates in relation to “the New
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[492,567,1168,1192]" name="Guinea-Bissau" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">Guinea</collectingCountry>
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dogs” that “we did not find them in a wild state”, only in villages. However, Broadbent had a separate collecting camp and might have obtained the
|
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<typeStatus box="[167,257,1256,1280]" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">holotype</typeStatus>
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as a feral animal. It is possible that the
|
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<typeStatus box="[644,734,1256,1280]" pageId="70" pageNumber="347">holotype</typeStatus>
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was a village dog but that Ramsay’s description reported observations of the singing calls heard by field workers.
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</paragraph>
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