. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . Two males and a female of this species—a species which is remarkaolefor its elegance and its sagacity, were brought to England, from Africa, byMajor Denham. While he was in that country he frequently employedthem in hunting the gazelle; in performing which they displayed infiniteskill. After a lapse of an hour and a half, or even two hours, they wouldfollow the scent; and they would often quit the line of it, to cut off a double,or, in other words, to shorten th
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . Two males and a female of this species—a species which is remarkaolefor its elegance and its sagacity, were brought to England, from Africa, byMajor Denham. While he was in that country he frequently employedthem in hunting the gazelle; in performing which they displayed infiniteskill. After a lapse of an hour and a half, or even two hours, they wouldfollow the scent; and they would often quit the line of it, to cut off a double,or, in other words, to shorten the distance, and would recover it with thegreatest ease. This dog is used in Africa to track a flying foe to his has rendered the female surly, and has deprived the whole of themof the desire to perpetuate their race. THE HYAENA DOG.*. This dog is a native of Southern Africa, and is a serious nuisance to thefrontier settlements at the Cape. It hunts in packs, generally at night, andis exceedingly fierce, swift, and active. Sheep, it unhesitatingly attacks,but it is less daring with respect to the horse and the ox, and, accordingly; 1 Cants pidus, Desm. 142 MAMMA LI A-WOLF. it waits till the animal is asleep. The injuries which it inflicts are usuallymortal. To bite off the tail of the ox seems to be its delight. The hyaenadog is smaller and slenderer than the hycena, or the wolf. In color it is ofa reddish or yellowish brown, variously mottled, along the sides of the body,and on the legs, in large patches of intermingled black and white. Fromits completely black nose and muzzle, a strong black line passes up thecentre of the forehead to between the ears, which are very large, black onboth surfaces, and furnished with a broad and expanded tuft of long, whitishhairs, filling a considerable part of their concavity. Its
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