NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



body colour is dull ochre yellow, with irregular 

 dark-brown patches and sundry blotches of the 

 same colour. The markings vary a good deal in 

 different individuals according to the local race to 

 which they belong. The white brush at the end 

 of the tail, however, is common to all. The height 

 of a full-grown Hunting Dog at the shoulder is 

 about two feet three inches ; length, four feet from 

 the nose to root of tail ; tail to the end of terminal 

 hairs, fourteen inches. 



There is a local race or sub-species of Cape 

 Hunting Dog in the north-east of South Africa, 

 viz. Lycaon pictus zuluensis. 



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