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side of neck dirty whitish. On the back a series of irregular spots larger than the others 

 on either side of and close to the vertebral line. Upper parts of head and face brown, 

 much mixed with black, upper parts of snout black. Sides of head paler brown, less 

 mixed with black. Region below the ears yellow. Chin dark brown. Proximal half, 

 or a little more of the tail coloured as the body with two dark spots, the remaining ter- 

 minal portion of the tail black. Length of head and body about 120 cm., length of tail 

 without hair 31 cm. with hair 40 cm. 



The colour of this Hyaena as well as the dimensions of its tail make it very easily 

 recognised. The relative dimensions of the skull are also very different from those of 

 C. kibonotensis as may be seen from the following measurements. 



Type. Younger specimen. 



Basilar length of skull 249 mm. 202 mm. 



Greatest zygomatie breadth 166 146 



Least interorbital width 53 46,5 



Distance between upper end of foramina inf'raorbitaJia 54 52,5 



Least postorbital width of skull 47, ft 4(> 



Width of palatal opening t.t sutiira palatopterygoidea 29,7 28 



Distance between outer sides of outer upper incisors 37,.') 35 



Distance between the bnlln: at the foramen at the middle of their 



inner side 27,5 21 



Distance between upper carnassial teeth at their posterior end . . . 91,3 85 



Length of upper carnassial tooth 37 35 



Length of upper third premolar 22 19 



There is no trace of an upper molar in the older specimen, but in the younger there 

 is a small molar on the right side. From these measurements is apparent that the grey 

 long-tailed Hyaena has a narrower forehead and snout than the red short-tailed one. The 

 palate of the former is, however, broader and especially the palatal opening is broader, 

 the lamince plcrygoidece are less vertical and the free posterior palatal margin does not 

 form an even curve but an obtuse angle, because the border of either side runs straight 

 and forms in the mesial line with that of the other side a little more than a straight angle, 

 slightly rounded at the apex. 



The lateral contour-lines of the occiput are not straight, but curve in the upper 

 portion towards the sagittal crest. 



In the R. Zoological Museum in Berlin I have had the opportunity of seeing a 

 couple of skins of spotted Hyaenas from the Pangani district. These were similar to 

 this one and I think that they belong to the same race having a brownish grey ground 

 colour with sharply defined spots, and dark brown feet. 



The Spotted Hyaenas were according to SJOSTEDT common on the steppe and in 

 the cultivated zone. A couple of Hippopotamus-skeletons hung up to dry attracted them 

 in numbers to the camp ( 1 ,300 in. ). A sick negro was one night carried off from his hut near 

 the camp and devoured by Hyaenas. They eat also the corpses which the Wadschaggas 

 lay out in the bush. One evening a Massai-man died in a hut situated a stone-throw 

 from the camp. The corpse was carried out by the relatives the same night only a little 

 way from the hut. Next morning when Prof. SJOSTEUT aided by a Massai-man went 



