462 Dr. Suirn's Descriptions of two Quadrupeds 
STRAND Worr, STRAND Jur, of the Colonists. 
TàB-XIX; 
In point of size and strength this species falls considerably 
short of the Crocuta or most common Cape Hyena. It usually 
measures about three feet from the forehead to the root of the 
tail, or a little better than four from the nose to the tip of the 
tail. The fore legs are considerably longer than the hinder 
ones; and when perfectly straight and upright, they maintain 
the upper parts of the shoulders about two feet four inches from 
the ground: on such, as well as on most other occasions, the 
head is still higher; and from thence till near the root of the 
tail the upper surface of the animal exhibits distinctly an in- 
clined plane. The fore parts are much stronger and more ro- 
bustly formed than the hinder ones, and its principal strength 
lies in the shoulders, neck, and head: the latter is throughout 
strongly. constructed, and the upper part is very broad, and 
appears even more so than it actually is, on account of the 
manner in which the hair, like a ruff, stands out upon its sides 
between the ears and the throat. The forehead is deep, slightly 
convex, and covered thickly with a rigid short hair, partly black, 
partly white, and partly reddish-brown,—all, however, so inter- 
mixed with each other as to exhibit a sort of grizzled appear- 
ance. The lower portion of the face, commencing at the eyes, 
is much narrower than the upper parts, convex, in front flattish, 
at the sides and throughout thinly covered by short, black, and 
reddish-white hair. Immediately under the outer angle of each 
eye are one or two black spots and black hair, more or less dis- 
tinctly in the form of one or more vertical stripes, occurs amon gst 
the. reddish-white sort that forms the ruff-like appearance pre- 
viously alluded to as extending between the ears and the throat. 
The nose and the centre of the face immediately adjoining it 
are 
