Striped Hyasna 299 



This lynx has a wide range in Southern and South-Eastern Europe, being 

 found in Spain, Portugal, Sicily, Sardinia, Greece, and Turkey. 



THE STRIPED HY^NA 



[Hyi^na sU'iatd) 



Within the area coming under the purview of the present volume, the 

 striped hysna (see Great and Small Game of India, etc. p. 335) is found in 

 Persia, Syria, Palestine, Arabia, and the adjacent districts of South-Eastern 

 Asia, as well as in the Caucasus. In Arabia the late Mr. W. Dodson ^ 

 wrote of these animals as follows :— 



" They keep to the hills and only come into the desert at night, 

 although, it a meal is to be found, they often lie up in the nearest %vadi 

 [valley] that offers shelter for several nights, or till the feast is finished. 

 . . . Putting down poisoned meat was a failure (except so far as pariah 

 dogs were concerned, and I got a good bag of them), no hy;ena ever coming 

 near my baits." 



In the Caucasus, according to Dr. Satunin, hyaenas are nowadays 

 seldom seen either in the Talish mountains or in those of the Araxes 

 range. In some of the Armenian villages on the banks of the Araxes 

 scarcely a year passes without one of these animals being seen. Twenty 

 years ago hysnas still made their appearance in the vicinity of Tiflis, and 

 the skin of a specimen killed in that neighbourhood is preserved. 



1 See Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900, p. 100. 



