50 THE SIDE-STRIPED JACKAL. 



This animal was met with by M. Du Chaillu in the Gorilla region of 

 Africa. He says * : " Before we got to town again I shot a mboyo, a 

 very shy animal, of the wolf kind, with long yellowish hair and straight 

 ears. I have often watched these beasts surrounding and chasing 

 small game for themselves. The drove runs very well together ; and as 

 their policy is to run round and round they soon bewilder, tire out, 

 and capture any animal of moderate endurance." 



Mr. H. H. Johnston found the species to be very common near a 

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

 stealing refuse or other food. He did not find it elsewhere much above 

 3000 feet, but the locality where he found it was 5000 feet high. 



The snout is long and slender j and the ear is not quite so long 

 relatively as in C. mesomelas, but is longer than in the other Jackals. 



The colour of C. admtus is yellowish brown, paler beneath ; the 

 backs of the ears dark brown. On each side in the typical specimen a 

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

 backwards to the side of the root of the tail j this light-coloured stripe 

 is bordered by black at its lower margin. 



The greater part of the tail is black, but the apical portion is white, 

 although in two specimens in the British Museum there are but a few 

 white hairs at the tip of the tail. 



Habitat. Central to Southern Africa. 



Centimeters. 



Length from snout to root of tail 86'0 



of tail 33-0 



from elbow to end of longest digit 17'2 



of ear 7-0 



Cranial and Dental Characters. 



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

 which extends backwards beyond a line joining the posterior margin 

 of the hinder true molars. 



* ' Explorations in Equatorial Africa ' (1861), p. 243. 



