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CHAPTER XV. 



WILD DOGS AND HYAENAS. 



Wild Dogs Description A Jungle Course Native Belief in Wild 

 Dogs killing Tigers Their supposed Method of Doing so 

 Deserted Temples Wild Dogs attacking Tiger Curious Scene 

 on the Neilgherries The Madras Hounds run with a Panther 

 The Ball Names of Hounds * Evangeline ' * Hawk-eye's ' 

 Description of Sainbur Hunted by Wild Dogs The Striped 

 Hyaena Spearing Hyaenas A Startling Adventure Relief! 

 Cowardice of Hyaenas A Hyaena * Leaps before he Looks ' A 

 Mixed Bag. 



THIS description of Indian sport would, I think, 

 be incomplete without a reference to two animals 

 that are occasionally met with, and, though they 

 do not exactly come under the head of game, they 

 often afford the sportsman objects of pursuit and 

 sport with rifle and spear. I allude to the wild 

 dog* and the striped hyaena, f 



To begin with the former. Jerdon's descrip- 

 tion is so accurate that I cannot do better than 



* Kuon Kutilans. f Hyaena Striata. 



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