404 MAJOR J. STEVENSON-HAMILTON ON 
Again, it would be quite impossible to distinguish a group of 
animals obtained, say, from Rustenburg in the west, froma similar 
group selected haphazard from Lydenburg in the east. Almost 
every individual shows certain special peculiarities, but the 
general type of animals in the two widely separated districts in 
no wise differs. In each we find the three colours of the coat 
variously predominating in different individuals: throat ruffs, 
backs of ears, black streaks on neck, show little uniformity. The 
markings of the tails vary in extreme cases from all white to all 
black, and while white tips are the rule, black ones are far from 
uncommon. 
The eastern Transvaal borders on the Mozambique Province 
of Portuguese East Africa, from which it is separated only by 
the low ridges of the Lebombo Hills, crossed freely by all wild 
animals. It is known, in fact, that the various packs of Hunting 
Dogs which ravage the Transvaal Game Reserves on the eastern 
frontier, travel long distances into Mozambique, and no doubt 
breed largely within that territory. It might, therefore, be con- 
fidently anticipated that these animals would adhere closely in 
type to the described subspecies Lycaon pictus typicus. 
In the large number of skins which I have seen at various 
times, some of which are still in my possession, it is, however, 
quite impossible to reconcile all the colour types and markings 
with one described subspecies. I am speaking now of the area 
of the eastern Transvaal extending from the Limpopo River in 
the north to the Crocodile River in the south, a range of not quite 
four degrees of latitude. 
T would specially mention three skins obtained in 1913. Two 
of these represent a male and a female shot in November from the 
same pack, at a spot near the Portuguese border of the Transvaal, 
approximately 24° 46'S lat. I selected them from several others 
secured on the same occasion, as presenting the most divergent 
types. In one the yellow was considerably in excess of the black, 
and the tail was mostly white with a black patch in its basal half. 
In the other the two colours were reversed in quantity upon the 
body, and the whole of the distal half of the tail was black and 
the rest yellow. The latter skin, however, had less black upon 
the ears than the former. The others in the pack all displayed 
various colour-patterns of an intermediate nature, some with 
white patches in the coats. 
The skin of the third specimen was that of a large male shot 
in about the same longitude as the others, but some thirty miles 
farther north, in August, 1913. It belonged to a different pack. 
Its coloration represented a third type, and between it and 
the two extremes one finds all sorts of variations. It was 
