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caracal Scheeb., Buff. xx. Tab. 24, is native of Africa and Persia. In 

 the North of Europe occurs Felis lynx L., Buff. ix. Tab. ■21, of which Felis 

 cervaria Temm. and NiLSS. and Fells virgata NiLSS. are only varieties; 

 NiLSSON Skandinavisk Fauna, 2 Uppl. Lund, 1847, PP- 128, 129. 



6 — 6 

 Family XXXIV. Viverrina. Molar teeth mostly -^ — ^ , three 



false on each side in upper jaw, three or four in lower. Only a 

 single tuberculate tooth on each side in lower jaw or none, almost 

 always two tuberculate teeth on each side in upper jaw. Feet 

 mostly digitigrade, either pentadactylous or tetradactylous, with 

 claws often semi-retractile. Glandular follicles betAveen the anus 

 and genitals, secreting a sebaceous matter of disagreeable odour. 

 Tongue rough with rigid papillse directed backward. 



The Civets. The limits of this family cannot be sharply drawn, 

 if we unite the genus Hycena with it, and not with the preceding, 

 which agrees indeed with Felis in the molar teeth, in the absence 

 of a tiibei'culate molar in the lower jaw, but in other respects has 

 little affinity with it. We are disjoosed however to prefer natural 

 affinity to a strict and severe adherence to a single character, and 

 with Waterhouse regard the Hygenas as a small divergent group 

 of civet cats. 



5 — 5 

 HyoBna Beiss., Pennant, Store. Molar teeth - — j, thick, 

 3— 3 . 4—4 



false molars ^ — o ? ^ single tuberculate tooth on each side in upper 

 o — o 



jaw, in lower jaw none. Feet all tetradactylous. Trunk short, 



declining backwarks from the shoulders. Tail short. (Dent. 



. ^ . 3-3 1-1 4-4 1-1 ^,, 



form. Owen, 1. ^— ^ , c. ^Zi ' P- ^^ZTg ' ™' I^l ^ ^' 



Sp. Hycena striata Zimmeem., Bodd., Canis Hycena L., Buff. Suppl. in. 

 PI. 46, Scheeb. Tab. 96, Menag. du Mus. i. pp. 256 — 270; the hycena; 

 in North Africa, Asia Minor, Arabia and Persia. Compare on the 

 anatomy Daubenton, Buff. ix. pp. 280 — 298 and G. E. Eeimann 

 Spicllegium ohservationum anat. de hycena, Berolini, 181 7 ; — Hycena crocuta 

 Bodd., Canis crocuta Eexl., Gm., Schkeb. Sdugth. Tab. 96 b, Cuv. 

 R Ani., ed. ill., Mammif. PI. 40, fig. 1 ; in South Africa, at the coast of 

 Guinea and in Senegal ; this species in the neighbourhood of the Cape 

 Colony is usually named wolf; — Hycena hrunea Thdnb. (Act.Holmien^. 1820), 

 Hycena villosa Smith, Travis, of the Linn. Sac. xv. 2, 1827, pp. 461 — 468, 

 PI. 19, GuEE. Iconogr., Mammif. PI. 18, fig. i ; the strand-wolf of the 

 colonists in South Africa. This whole genus is peculiar to the eastern 

 hemisphere. There are 15 or 16 dorsal vertebrse (15 or 16 pairs of ribs) 

 and 4 or 5 lumbar vertebrse. The tibia and fibula are much shorter than 

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