BULLET AND SHOT 



THE WILD DOG (Cnon rutilans) 



Next, after the human poacher, the most de- 

 structive is the wild dog. This animal hunts by 

 scent in packs, running mute ; and seldom, indeed, 

 is it that an animal upon whose track a pack of 

 dogs has started, escapes. Unlike the wolf, the 

 wild dog is quite untameable. I have seen a pack 

 running upon a scent just like a pack of hounds, 

 but quite mute. I fired at one, and hit it, and in 

 following it up found a hind leg which had 

 evidently been shattered by the '500 express bullet, 

 and then bitten off by the wounded animal above 

 the hock joint lying on the track, but the dog 

 escaped. I have a found a pack, out of which I 

 shot one, in an open glade in the early morning, 

 apparently enjoying the rising sun. 



I have only upon one occasion seen a single dog 

 by itself, but I once saw only four or five together 

 upon the high road, though of course there may 

 have been others belonging to the same pack in 

 the adjoining jungle. 



The wild dog stands from 17 to 20 inches in 

 height, is of much the same general colour as a 

 fox, and possesses a bushy red tail, though the 

 latter is devoid of the white tip which forms so 

 striking a finish to the brush of our " little red 

 rover." The effect upon the game, of the advent 

 of a pack of wild dogs in any tract of forest, is 

 magical. As soon as a few head of deer have 



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