THE SPORTSMAN IN SOUTH AFRICA. 93 



The " Mona (maned) Jackal," by which name it is most commonly 

 known, may be found all over South Africa, being very scarce below 

 the Orange River, but gradually becoming more numerous further 

 North. Although these animals make their burrows near each 

 other, several frequently occupying the same holes, they must not 

 on this account be considered gregarious, for when discovered 

 abroad during the day, more than two or three are never met with 

 at the same time, nor do they at all hunt in packs like the Wild 

 Dog. When pursued they run slowly, and can be overtaken at any 

 time by ordinary Kaffir mongrels, and, showing little disposition to 

 fight, are easily killed by them. This remark only applies to the 

 males, as, when a female is overtaken, the dogs, instead of injuring, 

 will make every attempt to caress her. Like its congeners, the Ard 

 Wolf is nocturnal, but, unlike them, its food consists of insects and 

 reptiles, as well as small animals and birds. The skins are little 

 sought after for kaross making. It is hunted when come across with 

 the Bechuanaland Border Police hounds, and affords very good 

 sport. 



The Cape Hunting Dog {Lycaon venatica).--Vilde Ilonde of 

 the Dutch. 



\_Height about 27 inches. General colour^ unevenly blotched with 

 large irregularly shaped black, white .^ and yellow patches.^ strongly 

 resembling the foxhound; indeed, at a distance both packs would 

 scarcely be distinguishable ; body lanky and sloping slightly away 

 toivards the stern ; legs long atid proportionally slender; head very 

 much Hyena shaped, but narrower and longer towards the muzzle, 

 which is black; ears remarkably large, broad, and nearly rounded.'] 



In its appearance and characteristics the Hunting Dog very strongly 

 resembles the Hyena, and indeed Burchell's mistake in describing it 

 as the Hycenapicta may well be excused, as the difference exists only 

 in dentition and anatomical structure. In the sparsely inhabited 

 portions of the Cape Colony, particularly in a North-westerly direc- 

 tion, some few packs of these animals still remain, and which depend 

 entirely for their existence on the contributions exacted from the 

 sheep and goat kraals of the far scattered farmers. In the North- 

 ern portion of the Transvaal and the Western half of Bechuana- 

 land, they are more common. Excepting, perhaps, Natal and the 

 Orange Free State, they are to be found in more or less numbers 



