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equally yellow and black with a sable ruff; the 

 East African race is very dark (Mr. S. L. Hinde 

 says that "the greater number of living specimens 

 seen at a distance appear to be black "), save for the 

 white-tipped tail ; and the Somali race is of smallish 

 size, the yellow being of a buff-tint — not orange as 

 in the East African form. As already stated, there 

 are also great individual differences amongst these 

 dogs. The following examples may be mentioned : — 



1. Young; animal fio-ured in Bennett's "Tower 

 Menagerie," p. ']'] . General body colour stated to 

 be yellowish ; has black patches on nape of neck, 

 on outside of foreleg and shoulder, and on thigh and 

 hind leg. Face blackish and a "strong line" pass- 

 ing along the centre of the forehead. Very little 

 white, apparently ; but there are white patches on 

 front and inside of forelegs. Cape race. 



2. Animal delineated by Harris in his " Portraits 

 of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern 

 Africa," being the foremost of a group of five. 

 General body colour huffish - yellow, irregularly 

 brmdled with black lines and also patched with 

 open black liturse, each enclosing a white area. 

 Linea faciein perairrens is present ; the muzzle, 

 cheeks, and throat are black. Cape race.^ 



1 Tlie " Marbled Lycaon " ti^aired in an Enj^disli (1S86) edition of 

 Cuvier's "Animal Kinjidoni" closely resembles this individual, being 

 handsomely brindled and also streaked with white. Although the 

 arrangement of tlie white areas is ditVerent, the pose is exactly that 

 ligureil by Harris, and suggests that it is the same t^pwimen J)i/i(recl from 

 the opposite siilc ! the pattern in these animals differing on each side of 

 the body. 



