sELotis COLLECTION. 7 



virgatus and canescens are probably only geographical races of the 

 South African meqalotis. 



4 19. 7. 15. 6 (sex not recorded). Skin, mounted, 1912. Northern 



Guaso Nyiro, Kenya Colony. 



SOUTH AFRICAN HUNTING DOG. 

 LYCAOJN' PICTUS PICTUS. 



Hyaena picta, Temminck, Ann. Gen. Sci. Phys. vol. iii. p. 54, pi. xxxv., 



1820. 



Lycaon tricolor, Gray, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v. p. 151, 1827. 

 Lycaon pictus, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 373. 



The presence of four toes on the fore feet distinguishes the 

 genus Lycaon from Canis. Ears very large. General colour a 

 mixture of yellowish buff, blackish brown, and white, in irregular 

 blotches, the pattern being extremely variable ; a dark frontal 

 stripe usually present. Skull heavily built and excessively broad, 

 with very massive teeth, superficially resembling those of the 

 Hyanidce. 



Typical locality, Mozambique. The Hunting Dog is very 

 generally distributed over the greater part of South Africa ; it 

 still exists in certain parts of Cape Colony. The Cape Colony 

 Lycaon has been separated as a distinct race under the name 

 venaticus *, and another form has been described from Zululand 

 as zuluensis f. 



5 19. 7. 15. 7. 21 October, 1884. Nata River, Western Matabili- 



land, Southern Rhodesia. 



Family 



DESERT STRIPED HY^NA. 



HYJLNA BEKGERI. 



Hyaena (Hyaena) hienomelas bergeri, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 

 ' 1910, p. 361. 



Hyxna hysena bergeri, Roosevelt and Heller, Life-histories of African 

 Game Animals, vol. 1. p. 255, 1915. 



* Burchell, Travels in S. Africa, vol. i. p. 456, 1822. 



f Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. xiv. p. 98, 1904. 



