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THE HY^INA DOG. 



LYCAON PICTUS. 



Hy&napictus, Temminck, Ann. Gen. Sc. physiques, vol. iii. p. 54, plate 35 



(1820). 



Hyaena picta, Kuhl, Beitrage, p. 73. 

 Hyoena venatica, Burcheirs Travels, vol. i. p. 456, and vol. ii. pp. 99 and 



229 (1822). 

 Canis pictus, Desmarest, Mammalogie, Supplement, p. 538 (1822) ; 



Riippell, Atlas, p. 35, plate 12 (1826) ; J. A. Wagner, 



Supplement to Schreber's Saugthiere, Abth. ii. p. 439. 

 Lycaon tricolor, Brookes, Prod. Anim. p. 10 (1828). 

 Lycaon typicus, A. Smith, S. African Quarterly Journal, vol. ii. (1835) 



p. 91. 

 Lycaon venaticus, Hamilton Smith, Jardine's Naturalist's Library, vol. x. 



p. 266, plate 24 (1840) ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, 



p. 497; id. Cat. Carnivorous Mammalia, p. 181. 

 Lycaon pictus, Pagenstecher, Zoologisehe Garten, 1870, pp. 197 and 238 



(anatomy) ; Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 373. 



THIS animal, as its vernacular name implies, presents a certain resem- 

 blance to the Hyaena. That resemblance, however, is a merely super- 

 ficial one, depending on its external markings and its general aspect 

 alone. In its dentition it is quite dog-like, as is also the form of its 

 caecum, so that its generic separation from the other Canida depends 

 mainly on the absence, externally, of the pollex as well as of the hallux. 

 The species ranges from the vicinity of the Cape through Eastern 

 Africa to Kordofan. As to its habits, Burchell tells us that it hunts in 

 regular packs, and that though habitually nocturnal, it nevertheless is often 

 abroad by day, and is very fleet. Not only sheep but oxen are attacked 

 by it, the latter being surprised in their sleep and often having the tail 

 suddenly bitten off. Sir Andrew Smith says that it never barks, but 



