50 THE S1UE-STRIPEI> JACKAL, 



Thin aiiiiiia! was iiu-t with by M. L)u Clmillu in the GurilU n'giun uf 

 Africa. He says • : — •* Ikforc wc pot to town o^iii I shot n mbftifu, u 

 vcr)' shy aniuial, of iho wolf kind, with hmp yrllowi»li hntr and stnii^ht 

 cant. I have often watched thi-M l)east« »urrounding and chasing 

 stuall game for themselves. Tlie drove nins very well together ; und as 

 their jMilicy is to nm round and n>und they soon Ijcwilder, tirv out, 

 and i-ii|ttun* any aiunial of nuMlcnitf endurnnci-." 



Mr. II. II. Johnston found the ft|M-cie« to be very nimnion near a 

 village on Kilimanjaro, to which it was attracted by the chance of 

 <<tenling refuse or other food, lie did not fnid it eUcwhcrc much alxive 

 :tOOO feet, but the locality where be ftiund it was JOOO fei-t high. 



The Kiiout is long and slender ; and the nur is not (|uitc so long 

 n-lnlively a^ in C mrm/mr/ns, but is longer than in the other Jackals. 



The colour of ('. mluslitt is yellow mh bniwii, ptiler InMirnth ; the 

 bucks of the ears dork bruwn. On c«ch side in the ly|iiral siKxriinm % 

 light-colourvtl line runs from behind the shoulder-blade, upwards and 

 liockwnrds to the side of the root of the tail ; this ligbt<colourcd stn|>c 

 is b«irtlered by black at its lower margin. 



The greater {tort of the toil is bUck, but the apical portion is white, 

 although in twu 8iM*ciiiu-ii» in the Hhtith .Museum there arc but a few 

 while liBirs at the tip of the tail. 



Jltif/Hal. Central to Southern .\fnca. 



Length frtini Miuut to root of tail . .si,n 



oft*il . . . .kit) 



,, fnmi elbow to cttil ut luuf^cst Ui^r 17 2 



<if i;ir . . r O 



truMiuJ ojtJ Denial Ckaractrrt. 



The skull of this animal is remarkable for the length of the palate, 

 which extends backwards beyond a line juintng the posterior margin 



of the hiiulcr true molars. 



* 'Jixploratiooi to E'lualorul Alriea ' (ISCI), p. 2-Kl. 



