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motive power, and we may, therefore, look to the skull for certain signs 
of the enormous development of muscles, which this animal possesses. 
In shape it somewhat resembies the cat’s skull, though not so short, nor 
yet so long as that of the civet or dog. The zygomatic arches are 
greatly developed, also the bony ridges for the attachment of the 
muscles, especially the sagittal or great longitudinal crest on the top of 
the head, which is in comparison far larger than that of even the tiger, 
and to which are attached the enormous muscles of the cheek working 
the powerful jaws, which are capable of crushing the thigh-bone of a 
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Skull of Hyzena. 
bullock. Captain Baldwin, in his book, says he remembers once, when 
watching over a kill, seeing a hyzena, only some twelve feet below where 
he sat, snap with a single effort through the rib of a buffalo. 
The hyzena also possesses the sub-caudal pouch of the civets, which 
gave rise amongst the ancients to various conjectures as to the dual 
character of its sex. 
The dulla tympani or bulb of the ear is large as in the cats, but it is 
not divided into two compartments by a bony partition (which in the 
dogs is reduced to a low wall), but the paroccipital process or bony 
