3IammaUa. 119' 



Hijana maculata, Thunberg. (Spotted Hysena.) Muzzle 

 &nd nose black ; forehead, crown of head, sides of muzzle, and 

 face before eyes, finely speckled with brownish red or black- 

 l)rown ; out surfaces of ears covered with a short tawny hair ; 

 inner surfaces, and lateral parts of head, about and below the 

 ears, yellowish white ; upper and lateral parts of neck, back, and 

 sides, pale fulvous or whitish tawny, variegated by black or 

 dull brownish somewhat circular spots ; outer and anterior sur- 

 faces of extremities have the ground colour rather paler and 

 the spots commonly darker ; lower part of head, throat, breast, 

 belly, and inner surfaces of extremities, dull white ; the belly 

 with some dusky spots. Tail fulvous towards root, with some 

 black spots on its upper surface ; the last two-thirds deep 

 black, and the hair very long, which is not the case on the 

 first third. The hair on the back of the neck and between the 

 shoulder is longer than on tlie other parts of the body, turned 

 forwards, and forms a sort of reversed mane. Length from 

 nose to base of tail four feet four inches ; length of tail sixteen 

 inches : height at shoulder about two feet six inches, at rump 

 about two feet two inches. 



Inhabits South Africa, — common every where. 



Mem. de I' Acad, de Petersh. iii. 308. H. maculata, Tem. 

 in Ann. General de Phys. iii. 53. Hysena Crocnta, Zimm. 

 Geogr. Gesch. ii. 256, 149. H. Tachetee, Cuv. Ossem. Fossil. 

 iv. p. 385. Hyaena Capensis, Desm. Tiger Wolf of the Cape 

 Colonists. 



Obs. The tints of the colours vary with age and season ; sometimes 

 tlie ground colour in young individuals is whitish instead of pale ful- 

 vous, the spots are deep black, and the under parts quite black : ia 

 still younger ones, the spots are often not distinct ; the surface exhibit- 

 ing rather a brindled appearance ; and in very young ones the fur is of a 

 Very dark dull slate colour, verging towards black. 



HycEua fusca, Geoffroy. (Fuscous Hyrena.) Hair long and 

 shaggy, particularly on the back of the neck, the body, and 

 tail. Muzzle pale red-brown ; forehead, crown, and lateral 

 parts of head, reddish white pencilled with black ; chin, upper 

 part of throat, and cheeks, in a great measure black ; ears 

 pointed, their outer and inner surfaces with a thin sprinkling of 

 reddish yellow hair ; eyes dark brown ; neck dirty white- 

 yellow or pale tawny, with a few of the hairs of its upper sur- 

 face annulated with black. Colour of body variegated tawny 

 Or reddish grey, and brown or blackish brown ; the latter so 

 disposed as to give the appearance of stripes or spots of that 

 hue on the sides ; some of the hairs are entirely tawny, but 

 ihost of them are only of that colour towards their bases and 

 l)lackish brown towards and at the points ; outer surfaces of 

 tttremities towards body, principally black ; lower parts of e.\- 



