NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 
body colour is dull ochre yellow, with irregular 
dark-brown patches and sundry blotches of the 
same colour. The markings vary a good deal in 
different individuals according to the local race to 
which they belong. The white brush at the end 
of the tail, however, is common to all. The height 
of a full-grown Hunting Dog at the shoulder is 
about two feet three inches ; length, four feet from 
the nose to root of tail; tail to the end of terminal 
hairs, fourteen inches. 
There is a local race or sub-species of Cape 
Hunting Dog in the north-east of South Africa, 
viz. Lycaon pictus zuluensts. 
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