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each side of tlie rectuin and a transverse band o£ follicles " 

 (p. 201). Again, when comparing Pyo/e/es with the hyaenas, 

 he remarked : " There is an anal pouch witii one pair of 

 anal glands and a supra-anal band of follicles as iu Cru- 

 cuia'' ([). 203). 



This summary is, however, not very happily worded. In 

 the first place, " the transverse band of isolated follicles " 

 referred to by Mivart in connection with H. hyana appears 

 to be the enlarged cutaneous glands generally distributed 

 over the wall of the sack, between the flask-like glands, 

 which Daubenton described. Judging from Flower's 

 account of Pruteles (I'. Z. S. 1869, p. 4yo), which Mivart 

 consulted, the corresponding area of the sack is very 

 similarly glandular in that animal ; whereas in Crucuta 

 alone does it seem that the enlarged glands form a definite 

 and comparatively narrow transverse band running across 

 the sack from one flask-like gland to the other. Watson, 

 at all events, figures it so. In the second place, it is wholly 

 misleading to say that //. hycena has two pairs of anal glands. 

 Jiike Proteles and Crucata, it has but a single pair, corre- 

 sponding to the saccular anal glands of other Carnivora. 

 A¥hat Mivart described as the second pair is the mass of 

 greatly enlarged cutaneous glands of the anal sack, each 

 with a pore to itself, opening upon the surface. These in 

 the aggregate do not constitute an " anal gland," properly 

 speaking, any more than the transverse belt in Crocnta 

 constitutes an amil gland. Therefore, since ITyiena liycena, 

 Crocuta, and Proteles have but a single j)air of anal glands, 

 it is in the iiighest degree probable that Hycena brvnnea is 

 similarly supplied, with the ditfeience that each of these 

 glaufls is tripartite instead of simple. 



Probably the correct way of expressing the facts is to say 

 that iu the Hyffinidie and Proteles the normal pair of anal 

 glands is retained, usually unmodified in form [H. hycena 

 Crocula, and Proteles), but sometimes partially subdivided 

 into three compartments {H. brunnea) ; and that, except in 

 H. brunnea^ certain cutanL'Ous glands of the anal pouch 

 adjoining the saccular glands are enlarged and active, and 



emit their secretion by separate pores into the anal pouch 



the most highly developed of these form a great mass out- 

 side and above the saccular gland on each side [H. hycena) 

 or are arranged in a band between these glands [Crocuta). 



Enough has been said to show that the anal sack and 

 glands of Proteles resemble those of the hyaenas tolerably 

 closely ; but, since Flower's figure only displays the parts 

 dissected from the dorsal aspect, I take this opi)ortunity of 



