THE DOG FAMILY OI 
Indian plains as gaily as they would a 
fox over the Hampshire Downs. The 
meet is very early in the morning, as the 
scent then lies, and riding is not too 
great an exertion. The ground drawn 
is not the familiar English covert, but 
fields, watercourses, and old buildings. 
A strong dog-jackal goes away at a 
great pace, and as the ground is open the 
animal is often in view for the greater 
part of the run; but it keeps well ahead 
of the hounds often for three or four 
miles, and if it does not escape into a 
hole or ruin is usually pulled down by 
them. Major-General R. S. S. Baden- 
Powell has written and illustrated an 
amusing account of his days with the 
fox-hounds of South Africa hunting 
jackals. The local Boer farmers, rough, 
unkempt, and in ragged trousers, used 
to turn up smoking their pipes to enjoy 
the sport with the smartly got-up English 
officers. When once the game was 
found, they were just as excited as the 
Englishmen, and on their Boer ponies 
rode just as hard, and with perhaps 
more judgment. 
Photo by L. Medland, F.Z.S.] 
TURKISH JACKAL 
This Fackal is common in both Turkey in Europe and in Asia. Ne. * 
Constantinople it feeds largely on the bodies buried in the cemeteries at 
Scutari 
ia 
(North Finchley 
: ” Photo y A 8. Rudland & Sins 
MANED WOLF 
A South American animal ; its coat is a chestnut-red 
Jackals are said to be much increasing 
in South Africa since the outbreak of the 
war. The fighting has so far arrested 
farming operations that the war usually 
maintained on all beasts which destroy cattle 
or sheep has been allowed to drop. In parts 
of the more hilly districts both the jackal 
and the leopard ‘are reappearing where they 
~ have not been common for years, and it will 
“take | some ‘time before these enemies of the 
farmer are destroyed. 
THe Manep WoLF 
This is by far the largest of several 
peculiar South: American species of the Dog 
Family which we have not room to mention. 
It occurs in Paraguay and adjoining regions, 
and is easily distinguishable by its long limbs 
and large ears. It is chestnut-red in colour, 
with the lower part of the legs black, and is 
solitary in its habits. 
