BTJBXINA. 



HY.NINA. 



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he *mppd Unm aeonder in a moment, dividing 

 only, which he (wallowed entire, without the 

 a On to* keeper putting a *par of wood two 

 e* i i into his dm, be cracked it in piece* u if it W 



IMSI tOTokwood, and in minute the whole was reduced to a mail of 

 Itillli Th powr of hjs jw far exceeded any animal force of the 

 bad I err aa* exerted, and reminded me of nothing ao much as a 

 ferr'* orahiaf-Bill, or the icion with which they cut off ban of 



_ crashing -mill, or 

 I and copper in th 



Ui f^uaderiea," 



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 (' ReliquitD Diluvianaj.') 



Teeth of Ujau. (F. Curler.) 



Toe accompanying figure* will give the reader norne idea of the 

 area and ipaoe devoted to the attachment and development of the 

 MMl* defined to move the powerful jawa. These muacles, aided 

 by UM mosdes of the neck, are 10 itrong that it U almost impossible 

 to drag from their vice-like grip that which the animal hu once 

 *l*s'- Covier remarlu that their effort* in thii way aometime* pro- 

 dBc* anchylosis of the cervical vertebra, and that thii hai given rue 

 to UM esMrtton that HVMOM have but a tingle bone in the neck. He 



ig the Arab* i* the lymbol of stub- 



Th* tongue i* rough.^The feet have four'toe* imdi"" 

 UMC* of th* Mrioatea. Tb* *ame author nimi up their character by 

 tnat tbey are voraeiou* nocturnal animals, inhabiting cavern*, 

 living for the moct |rt on cares sin, for which they raniack the 

 MMba, and that they are the (ubjeot* of an infinity of itipentitioui 



raws : protW. (Ouriw.) 



Skull of Striped Hjtena : profile. (Cuvicr.) 



* Skull of Spotted Hyn, seen from above. 



The strength of these animal* and their power of dragging away 

 large bodies is strikingly exemplified in Colonel Denham's narrative. 

 At Kouka he relates that the Hytcnas (Dhubba), which were every- 

 where in legions, grew so extremely ravenous that a good large village, 

 where he sometime* procured a draught of sour milk on his duck- 

 shooting excursions, had been attacked the night before his last visit, 

 the town absolutely carried "by storm, notwithstanding defence* nearly 

 *ix feet high of branche* of the prickly tulloh, and two donkeys, whose 

 flesh these animals are, according to our author, particularly fond of, 

 carried off, in spite of the efforts of the people. " We constantly," con- 

 tinues Colonel Denham, " heard them close to the walls of our own town 

 at nights, and on a gate being left partly open, they would enter and 

 carry off any unfortunate animal that they could find in the street*." 

 From the same narrative it appears that it was necessary to protect 

 the graves from the attacks of these rapacious brutes. Mr. Toole's 

 grave had a pile of thorns and branches of the prickly tulloh, several 

 feet high, raised over it as a protection against the flocks of hytcuaa 

 which nightly infested the burying-places in that country. 



Limitcus, in bis last edition (12th) of the ' Systema Naturfc,' place* 

 the Hyena under the genus Canu, between the Wolf and the Fox, 

 and describes the Striped Hyoma only as Canit Jfyama, with snl! 

 accuracy. Brisson had already given the form a generic distinction 

 under the name of Hyirna. 



Omelin, in his edition, adds the spotted species under the name of 

 Canit crocuta, and places these hyena* between the Canit 7% our and 

 C. aurcut, the latter being the Jackal ; but Pennant had previously 

 described both species in bis synopsis under the title of ' Hyiuna, 1 and 

 as the Striped and Spotted Hyenas, arranging the form between the 

 ' Dog' and the ' Cat,' names which ho uses a* generic distinctions for 

 those carnivorous types, in the largest sense. 



Cuvier makes the Hyicnas the last subdivision of the Digitigrade* 

 following his Civets (Vivara), and immediately preceding the Cats 

 (Petit). Ho describes the subdivision as containing the most cruel 

 and most carnivorous animals of the class, and a* comprising two 

 genera (which he does not distinguish), adding that three species are 

 known, namely, L'Hyene Rayee (Canit Hyoma, Linn.); L'Hyene 

 lirune (Hyaena bnmnta, Thunberg ; //. villota, Smith) ; and L'Hyene 



