LYCAON PICTUS. 
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CANIDS. 
LYCAON. 
Lycaon, Brookes^ Griffiths Anim. Kingd. vol. v. 1827, p. 151. 
Dog-like in form, but having four toes only on both fore and hind feet as in Hyaena. 
Teeth very massive and rounded, and the skull heavier than in Canis. 
Ltcaon PICTUS, Temm. 
Hyanapicta, Tennninck, Ann. Gen. Sci. Phys. iii. 1820, p. 54. 
Lycaon tricolor^ Brookes, Prodr. Anim. 1828, p. 10. 
Canis pictus, Cretzschm. Riipp. Atlas, 1827, pi. 12, p. 35 ; Riipp. Neue Wirbelth., Sllug. 1840, 
p. 39. 
Lycaon pictus, Hemp. & Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. 1832, ii. & ; Fitz. & Heugl. SB. k. Ak. Wiss. 
Wien, liv. i. 1866, p. 553; Heugl. Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. 1877, p. 48; Matschie, Sang. Deutsch- 
O.-Afr. 1895, p. 63; de Winton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 551. 
There does not appear to be any recently published notice of the occurrence of the 
Hunting-Dog in the Nile Valley, with the exception of the bare mention of the name 
by Schweinfurth in his list of the carnivorous animals of Khargeh ; but this record 
requires to be substantiated. Ehrenberg says he often saw packs in Dongola. Heuglin 
says they are seen on the Plain of Takah and even in Southern Nubia. 
Riippell (Heisen Nub., Kordof., &c. 1829, pp. 63-71) mentions Canis pictus as one of 
the animals hunted in the western deserts of the Dongola district in the months 
of May and June; and in Cretzschmar’s Atlas, where an excellent illustration of the 
animal will be found, this dog is said to occur in the desert of Korti and in Kordofan, 
where it is called by the natives ‘ Simir.’ 
The Hadendowahs of Suakin describe a large dog of the neighbouring hills, with 
white round the neck and on the rump, which they call ‘ Manoab.’ They say it hunts 
gazelles. 
The species, therefore, in the earlier part of the last century, was spread over the 
eastern side of the African continent practically from north to south. 
It is thought by some writers that the large prick-eared parti-coloured dogs in leash 
represented in the mural paintings at Beni Hasan and elsewhere may possibly be 
intended for this animal, but this seems doubtful. 
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