i;l$ African Zooloyg. 



sides of body dull tawny white ; sides of head and under parts 

 of neck, whitish; breast and belly, pale tawny white; ex- 

 tremities dull white with fulvous tinges ; sides of muzzle and 

 upper lip, whitish ; whiskers, bristly hairs of cheeks and eye- 

 brows, black ; outer surfaces of ears whitish, the margins 

 black ; inner surfaces, and s^iaces round eyes, deep black ; 

 lower portion of muzzle dull red-brown. Tail fulvous towards 

 base, pencilled with black ; subferruginous pencilled with black 

 towards middle, and brownish black at the tip ; nails dark 

 horn-coloured. The woolly hairs on the neck, back, and sides, 

 very abundant, blackish towards bases^ fulvous towards tips, 

 ■which tint in many places shines through the bristly hairs ; the 

 latter are annulated with four rings alternately black and white ; 

 the last, or tip one, very black. Length from nose to base of tail 

 twelve inches ; length of tail eight inches. 



Inhabits South Africa. — About Lake Tchad, Denham. 



Viverra tetradactyla, Lin. Buff. Naf. hist. xiii. Byzaena, 

 Ulig. Prod. Suricata Capensis, Desm. Mam. p. 214 — 330. 

 Meer Kat of the Cape Colonists. 



Genus HviENA. 



Incisors t, canines \\, molars H, — 34. Upper jaw, — three 

 conical false molars ; one very large, strong carnivorous toothy 

 with three edges on the outer side, and a small tubercle within; 

 fifth, small and tuberculous. Lower jaw, — three false molars; 

 carnivorous tool h bisC7ispidate and without the tubeicle on the 

 inside. Head short and very broad; tongue aculeated ; ears 

 moderate ; feet with four toes ; nails not retractile; a glandular 

 pouch over the anus. 



Hycena vulgaris. Desm. (The striped Hyrena.) Hair 

 coarse, rough, and pretty long ; on the back of the neck and 

 middle of back longest, where it forms a distinct mane, some 

 of the hairs of which, towards the tail, measure from eight to 

 nine inches. General colour yellowish grey with transverse 

 black stripes on the sides and extremities, those of the latter 

 very numerous and darker coloured than the others ; the hairs 

 of the mane are grey tipped with black ; muzzle and outer sur- 

 faces of ears violent brown ; some black spots above and below 

 the outer angles of eyes. Throat black ; breast, belly, and 

 inner surfaces of extremities, yellowish, spotted with brown. 

 Tail very hairy, of a grey colour with brown tints. Length 

 from nose to base of tail about three feet two inches ; length of- 

 tail about nine inches. 



Inhabits Barbary, Egypt, Abyssinia, Nubia, and Asia. 



Canis Hyaena, Lin. Hyaena vulgaris, Desm. Mam. Foadh, 

 Shaw's Travels in Barbary. Abyssmian Hyaena, Bruce'* 

 f ravels. Hy sen& of the Ancients. 



