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it had several convulsive fits. I could not examine the hrain ; hut 

 Mr. Ward, who stuffed the animal, told me that a largo quantity of 

 serum escaped from the cranium, so that probahly death was occa- 

 sioned by inflammation of the brain and effusion of fluid. 



In Cuvier's 'Animal Kingdom,' 1841), by Carpenter, p. 91, is the 

 following note : — "This remarkable species is dog-like, but certainly 

 not a Canis ; its form and colouring (and, there is reason to suspect, 

 its internal conformation) are rather those of a hyaena, and it is 

 known to copulate in the manner of those animals, and not in the 

 peculiar manner of the dogs and foxes. Even its dentition is the 

 same as that elsewhere found (with one other exception, Proteles) 

 throughout the group to which we conceive the hysenas to belong, 

 the dental system of which latter appears to be modified in accord- 

 ance with their much increased and prodigious strength of the jaw." 



This dog weighed about 50 lbs. ; it measured 3 feet 1 inch from 

 nose to root of tail ; tail, 13 inches ; height to the back behind neck, 

 2 feet 3 inches ; fore-leg, 1 Clinches; ribs, 13. Teeth: incisors, 6 

 in each jaw, 12 ; canines, 4 ; molars, 10 above and 12 below, =38. 

 The age of the animal about 2^ years. Heart of a rounded form ; 

 weight 8 oz. ; the parietes of the left ventricle 10 lines in thickness, of 

 the right 3 lines ; the aorta of large calibre, and its coats thick. Lungs, 

 the right four-lobed, the left three- ; weight 26 oz. Trachea very large. 

 Liver seven-lobed ; weight 21 oz. Bile of a dark yellow colour. Gall- 

 bladder of moderate size. Spleen about 500 grs. in weight ; long, 

 lax, thin and narrow, as in all the Carnaria. It was in the usual 

 situation in this order of animals, viz. on the left of the stomach, to 

 which it was attached by a wide mesenteric fold ; the splenic artery 

 and vein long ; no valves in the latter. Pancreas small and elon- 

 gated. Kidney oblong, less concave on its inner side than usual. 

 The stomach of moderate size, and shaped like that of the dog ; 

 length 1 2 inches ; this organ with the oesophagus measured 1 2 feet 

 6 inches ; the caecum, which was in 2^ spiral folds like that of the 

 dog, when unfolded was 5 inches in length ; the colon and rectum 

 1 foot 10 inches ; total, 14 feet 9 inches. The caecal valve strong 

 and distinct. The alimentary canal was too much decomposed to 

 allow of my making a microscopical examination of it, but its struc- 

 ture appeared to resemble that of the Dog. 



The ribs of the Hysena are 15 ; those of the Lycaon 13, as in the 

 Dog, Wolf and Fox. The teeth of the Hyoena, judging from two 

 skulls in the Museum of the College of Surgeons, are, 4 incisors above, 

 G below, 10 molars above, 12 below, canines 4, =36. In the skull of 

 the Striped Ilysena 1 molars in each jaw (one specimen), and in 

 some fossil jaws of this animal the number of molars is less than 

 above quoted ; but much, of course, will depend upon the age of the 

 animal. In the Pointer, Blood-hound, Dingo, and other dogs, I 

 found 12 molars above and 14 below, the canines being 4 and the 

 incisors 12. The same with the Wolf and Fox. 



The only record I can find of the dissection of a Hyaena is one fur- 

 nished me by Professor Quekett, and in this animal (30 years old) 



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