THE SELOtJS COLLECTION. 7 



virgatus and. canescens are probably only geographical races of the 

 South African megalotiit. 



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



Guaso Nyiro, Kenya Colony. 



SOUTH AFKICAN HUNTING DOG. 



LyCAON PIOTtrs PICTUS. 



Hyssna /picta, Temminok, Ann. G^n. Soi. Phys. vol. iii. p. 54, pi. xxxv., 



1820. 

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

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



The presence of four toes on the fore feet distinguishes the 

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

 mixture of yellowish buff, blackish brown, and white, in ii-regular 

 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 

 IIy(smd(B. 



Typical locality, Mcfeambique. 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 HY^NID^. 



DESERT STEIPED HYJCNA. 

 Ht^na ht^na beegeei. 



Sysena (Syxna) hienomelas bergeri, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 



1910, p. 361. 

 Eysena hysena bergeri, Roosevelt and. Heller, Life-histories of African 



Game Animals, vol. i. P...2S5, 1915. 



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



■j- Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. xiv. p. 98, 1904. 



