THE VOICE OF LYCAON 
solitary ; dogs as already mentioned, are friendly to 
each other and gregarious. Indeed, the fondness of the 
dog for man is held to be a mistake on the part of the 
dog who considers his master to be a superior kind of dog, 
ready for country excursions and the pursuit of game. 
Bears, it will be remembered, are plantigrade, i.e. they 
walk upon the palms of the hands, and the sole of the 
feet. They may havea prehensile tail, which a dog never 
has. Their intestine is not furnished with a blind 
appendage, the cecum. The intestines of both cat 
and dogs are so provided. There are points in theskull 
and the teeth which differentiate the three groups which 
the late President of the Zoological Society, Sir William 
Flower, called respectively, Aeluroidea, Cynoidea, and 
Arctoidea. Lycaon hunts in packs, whence its vernacular 
name. These associations consist of some fifteen on an 
average ; but as few as four, and as many as sixty have 
been noted in one pack. They pursue their prey with 
skill and unanimity : so quick are they in their move- 
ments that the quarry is sighted (or smelt), caught, and 
eaten before the indignant farmer or sportsman can come 
come up with the depredators. The colour of this dog 
is one of the most remarkable features. The ground 
colour is a buffish yellow marked with irregular blotches 
of dark brown. Ithasso distincta likeness to an hyena, 
that the naturalist who first described and named this 
dog, actually placed it with the hyenas. It has only 
four toes instead of the usual canine five. Its voice is 
various ; it barks, chatters like a monkey, and says 
“ho, ho,”’ like ‘‘ the second note of a cuckoo.” 
BLUE AND WHITE FOXES 
The blue fox of commerce and of the Arctic regions is 
the summer form of the white fox of the same quarter of 
the globe. But it appears that this change of fur on the 
approach of winter is by no means universal ; and some 
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