Dr. Suirn's Descriptions of two Quadrupeds, §c. 461 
to be described would ere this have been familiar to naturalists, 
and the illustrious Cuvier saved the necessity of making the fol- 
lowing confession regarding one of them*. ‘ Nous avons au 
cabinet du roi une hyène dont la patrie est inconnue, sur laquelle 
je suis en doute si c'est encore une varieté de l’hyène rayée ou 
bien si on doit la regarder comme une espèce distinct.” 
Two species of the genus Hyæna inhabit the more southern 
parts of Africa, viz. the Hyena encrita, or Tiger Wolf of the 
Cape colonists, and the Strand Wolf of the same, or the animal 
evidently alluded to by Cuvier in the remarks above quoted. 
The description of the latter has been drawn up from observa- 
tions made on several different specimens, but particularly on 
one which was purchased for the South African Museum, when 
very young, and which now full-grown still continues in the 
possession of that establishment. 
The other animal, as will be seen, is a new species of Hyrax, 
which, though it has lately been sent to Europe, has not yet, as 
far as I know, been named or described. From its being always 
found living in cavities or hollows of old decayed trees, I have 
given it the specific appellation of “arboreus.” ‘The drawing of 
the Hyæna accompanying this paper, is a close and faithful re- 
presentation of the animal; and it was my wish to have sent 
one also of the Hyrax, but in that I have been disappointed, in 
consequence of my specimen dying before the drawing could 
be made. 
Hyæna with the body dusk ed by large black - 
ck yellowish, and the 
spots or oblique bands, v 1e | 
extremities ue x — 1 -— E transverse black lines. 
* Récherches sur les nto Fossiles, par M. 1. Cuvier, tom. iv. p. 384. 
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