with Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



quantities of iiesh and bones, and can break bones of 

 great thickness with their powerful teeth. Their habits 

 are nocturnal. They do not like the heat of the sun ; 

 young and tamed specimens are not able to stay with 

 the caravan on the sun-scorched velt, even when 

 they are full grown. When the sky is cloudy one 

 sometimes sees hyeenas in search of prey in the late 



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VUI.Tl'Kh.^ KKAl M.NEl) NEAR THE CAMP DAY AKTEK JiAV I.N THE 

 HOPE OF FOOD 



afternoon, but generally they pass their day in the shade 

 of the bushes or in caves and under rocks. I found 

 young ones on several occasions during the spring 

 months. There are generally three or four in a litter. 



The vicinity of the fox-like earths is trodden quite 

 flat by the young ones. Quantities of skulls and bones 

 lie round about, and vultures sit close to the young 

 hyaz^nas in the early morning hours — a sign that they 



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