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though we have no authentic instance of their actually 

 attacking him. But Mr. Rainey, in the Northern Guaso 

 Nyiro desert, saw a party of wild dogs chasing a lion ; they 

 did not bite him, but he was manifestly uneasy and con- 

 cerned and trotted sheepishly along, endeavoring to get out 

 of their way. 



East African Hunting Dog 



Lycaon pictus lupinus 



Native Names: Swahili, bizi, mhwa-mwitu; Masai, osuyai; Kavirondo, 

 sudthi; Dinka, kwaty. 



Lycaon pictus lupinus Thomas, 1902, Ann. y Mag. Nat. Hist., IX, p. 439. 



Range. — East Africa and Uganda from the coast and 

 desert tracts inland to the high plateaux, lacking only from 

 the forest and alpine country. 



Hunting dogs were met with by some of the first ex- 

 plorers to enter the upper Nile region. Heuglin reported 

 them in 1869 from the White Nile, and a few years later 

 Schweinfurth mentioned them from the upper waters of 

 the Bahr el Ghazal and the Nile-Congo watershed. Speke 

 and Grant, however, were less fortunate in this regard 

 and failed to learn of their occurrence in the region they 

 traversed. On the East Coast, however, it was not until 

 comparatively recently, in 1887, that Willoughby first re- 

 ported the hunting dog from the Kilimanjaro country. It 

 is now well known that they range from the coast and low 

 desert country inland to the highlands wherever there is 

 sufficient game for food. They are nowhere numerous, 

 but wander about in packs over much territory and are 

 seldom met with by sportsmen. The East African race 

 has been described by Oldfield Thomas from specimens shot 

 by C. S. Betton near the Ravine Station on the headwaters 

 of the Nyuki River, at the point where it is crossed by the 

 equator. 



A typical specimen of the East African race has the 

 color on the back irregularly blotched black and ochraceous- 

 yellow in about equal proportions, with scarcely no white, 

 and with the back of the ears black. The hunting dog 



