46"2 Dr. Smith's Descriptions of tzc'o Quadrupeds 



Strand Wolf, Strand Jut, of the Colonists. 



Tab. XIX. 

 In point of size and strength this species falls considerably 

 short of the Crocuta or most common Cape Hyjena. It usually 

 measures about three feet from the forehead to the root of the 

 tail, or a little better than four from the nose to the tip of the 

 tail. The fore legs are considerably longer than the hinder 

 ones ; and when perfectly straight and upright, they maintain 

 the upper parts of the shoulders about two feet four inches from 

 the ground : on such, as well as on most other occasions, the 

 head is still higher : and from thence till near the root of the 

 tail the upper surface of the animal exhibits distinctly an in- 

 clined plane. The fore parts are much stronger and more ro- 

 bustly formed than the hinder ones, and its principal strength 

 lies in the shoulders, neck, and head: the latter is throughout 

 strongly constructed, and the upper part is very broad, and 

 appears even more so than it actually is, on account of the 

 manner in which the hair, like a ruft, stands out upon its sides 

 between the ears and the throat. The forehead is deep, slightly 

 convex, and covered thickly with a rigid short hair, partly black, 

 partly white, and partly reddish-brown, — all, however, so inter- 

 mixed with each other as to exhibit a sort of grizzled appear- 

 ance. The lower portion of the face, commencing at the eyes, 

 is much narrower than the upper parts, convex, in front tlattish, 

 at the sides and throughout thinly covered by short, black, and 

 reddish-Avhite hair. Immediately under the outer angle of each 

 eye are one or two black spots and black hair, more or less dis- 

 tinctly in the form of one or more vertical stripes, occurs amongst 

 the reddish-white sort that forms the ruii'-like appearance pre- 

 viously alluded to as extending between the ears and the throat. 

 The nose and the centre of the face immediately adjoining it 



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