Chardcti'VM of the Striped IIijuiki (fr. 



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of liair-roHiclcs in tlic skin. Tlic uijperside of tlic webs 

 is naked and the tips of the dijjits earry long hairs, some of 

 whieh spread on to, and to a slij^ht extent l)eneatli, the edge 

 of the wch joining the tliird and fourth digits togetlier. 



Thecarpiil pad is small, nearly heniis|)herieal, and set almost 

 in the niiihlle line a long distance above the plantai' pad. 

 Tbe area between the carpal and plantar j)ads is covered 

 with hails, whicii arise in two streams above tiie carpal pad, 

 encircle it, and converge to a line passing between that pad 

 and the i)ostero-externai angle of the plantar pad. Jnst 

 above the plantar, to a point nearly midway between it and 

 the eai'pal jjad, the skin is scantily hairy and there is a 

 similar scantily iiairy area on the inner side and in front of 

 (l)elow) the carpal pad. 



Tlie hind foot is very similar to the front foot, hnt is 

 shoiter and narrower, and the hairs above the ))lantar j)ad 

 rnn in a contmnous downward diieetion ; hnt there is 

 here also a scantily hairy area jnst above that pad in the 

 nii<ldle line. 



In rigidity, compactness, and in the shape and ui)tilting 

 of the digital pads, as well as in the shortness and bluntness 

 of the claws, the feet of liyaMias resemble those of the 

 Canidce, generally speaking, rather than of other ^'Elnroidea. 

 In the latter the plane of the digital pads, which are almost 

 always elliptical in ontline, is usually the same as that of the 

 plantar pad when the foot is in the lying position. 



The feet of Crocuta seem to be quite like those of Hycena ; 

 and the same applies to the feet of Proteles, except for the 

 ])resenee of the pollex, which is situated halfway between 

 the wrist-joint (carpus) and the tips of the other digits, and 

 of a patch of naked skin on the heel, which Flower con- 

 sidered to be normal and not due to Mcar. It may be 

 particularly noticed that this author stated : — "The auinr.al 

 appears to be perfectly digitigrade." There is, however, 

 one point connected with tlie feet of Proteles to which 

 Flower did not allude. In the skin of a South African 

 speciiueti, the area between the plantar and digital pads is 

 centered tolerably thickly, though not so thickly as the rest 

 of the foot, with short hair, and the upperside of the webs 

 is also hairy. In this particular the feet of Proteles differ 

 from those of all the hy;enas, judging from skins of the 

 Striped, Brown, and Spotted species in the Zoological 

 Society's collection. 



Anal Pouch and Glands. — These structures have been 

 dcscriljcd by several authors in the three existing species of 

 hyieuas. !Murie's account of the pouch in Hijaoiu hnnineu 



