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view of their habits it seems quite impossible that the col- 

 oration of their coats can have even the smallest effect 

 upon their well-being; and it is absolutely impossible that 

 the totally different types of coloration of the three species 

 can all have the same effect from the standpoint of conceal- 

 ment. It seems probable that these totally different col- 

 oration patterns have been developed without reference 

 to the concealing quality of any of them; and it is cer- 

 tain that no one of them is now of more value than the 

 others in the animal's life, from the standpoint of con- 

 cealment. 



Key to the Races of hycena 



Dorsal ground-color pale-bufF without pinkish suffusion; stripes 

 black and broader; mane tipped with black; feet uni- 

 form dark-brown schillingsi 



Dorsal ground-color pale pinkish-bufF; stripes dark seal-brown and 

 narrower; mane tipped with dark-brown; feet bufF or 

 ochraceous mottled with brownish-drab bergeri 



Highland Striped Hyena 



Hycena hycena schillingsi 



Native Name: Swahili, kungugua. 



Hycena schillingsi Matschie, 1900, Sitz.-Ber. Ges. Nat. Freunde, Berl., p. 55. 



Range. — Kilimanjaro region and Rift Valley of German 

 East Africa, northwest to the Victoria Nyanza, Loita Plains, 

 and Kedong Valley in British East Africa. 



The striped hyena is a rare animal in East Africa, and 

 is seldom met with by the sportsman. Willoughby and 

 Hunter saw specimens during their trip to Kilimanjaro in 

 1887, and were the first to report its occurrence, but it was 

 not until a decade later that specimens were actually se- 

 cured by Schillings, for whom the race was named by Mat- 

 schie in 1900. More recently specimens have been secured 



