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of brown upon a greyish ground, the colours are 

 black upon rufous, and the ears, equalling those of 

 the striped hyaena, are ashy. 



The Striped Hyaena (H. vulgaris, DESM.) No 

 less remarkable for similar ferocious qualities with 

 the last mentioned, is, with slight variety of form, 

 stature, and colours, spread over the whole of 

 Southern Asia as far as the east of Bengal, and 

 Northern Africa to Morocco and Abyssinia. The 

 largest variety is 



THE HYAENA OF ATBARA, BRUCK, 

 Hycsna vulgaris^ VAR. 



The Canis hysenomelas of earlier Zoologists. 

 PLATE XXVI. 



THE total length of one measured by Bruce was 

 five feet nine inches to the tail, and the height at 

 the shoulder three feet seven inches. The fur is 

 but slightly lined by a woolly under-coat, and the 

 upper is long, rank, and coarse, from the nape to 

 the tail, not particularly abundant on the neck and 

 flanks, and very long and stiff, in the form of a 

 mane along the ridge of the back. The specimen 

 we saw was smaller, although a large animal, en- 



