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are unacquainted with, but on reconsidering what 

 we have stated of the Abyssinian Tokla, we suspect 

 the A. auritus, or a second species of this sub- 

 genus, may have been intended. 



SUB-GENUS V. LYCAON. 



THE Dutch colonists of the Cape of Good ,Hope 

 having applied the name of wolf to the spotted and 

 villous hyaena, found, that in the wilderness there 

 were other animals like canines, and among them 

 confounded the species which forms the type of the 

 present subdivision under the name of " wilde 

 honden," and we designated by the name of Lycaon, 

 from the time when the late Mr. Joshua Brooks, at 

 our suggestion, adopted it in the arrangements of 

 his Museum. For, knowing that in the Caffrarian 

 dialects, Likene denoted a dog, a wild canine, and 

 finding the Lycaon of Ethiopia, in Solinus, described 

 as an animal with a maned neck, and marked with 

 many colours, while Pliny says the Lycaon changes 

 colour ; the first seemingly confounding the Lycaon 

 pictus with a true hyaena, and the second indicating 

 a beast of prey liable to change its fur in particular 

 seasons, as this animal is known to do in Ethiopia/ 

 while both adopt that name of which the African 

 form is still indigenous. We thought these notices, 

 supported by the existence of the species on the 



