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each side of the rectum and a transverse band of follicles " 

 (|). 201 ). Again, when comparing Prote/es with the hyaiiias, 

 he remarked : " There is an anal ponch with one pair of 

 anal glands and a snpra-anal band of follicles as in Cro- 

 <•«/«" (p. 20.3). 



This snmmarv is, however, not very happilv worded. In 

 the first place, " the transverse bancl of isolated follicles " 

 referied to by ^livart in eonnecticni with //, /tt/<ena appears 

 to bo the enlarged cutaneons glands generally distributed 

 over the wall of the sack, between the fi;isk-like glands, 

 which Daubenton described. Judging from Flower's 

 account of Proteles {V.Z.S. ISirJ, p. 49.j), which Mivart 

 consulted, the corresponding area of the sack is very 

 similarly glandular in that animal; whereas in Crucuta 

 alone docs it seem that the enlarged glands form a detinite 

 and comparatively narrow transverse band runnino- across 

 the sack from one Hask-like gland to the other. Watson 

 at all events, figures it so. In the second i)lace, it is wliollv 

 misleading to say that //. Inj(eita hastwo pairsof anal glands. 

 Like Fi'ott'les and Crucuta^ it has but a single pair, corre- 

 sponding to the saccular anal glands of other Carnivore. 

 AN'hat Mivart described as the second pair is the mass of 

 greatly enlarged cutaneous glands of the anal sack, each 

 with a pore to itself, opening upon the suiface. These in 

 the aggregate do not constitute an " anal gland,'' properly 

 speaking, any more than the transverse belt in Crocuta 

 constitutes an anal gland. Therefore, since llycena hyteiia, 

 Crocuta, and Proteles have but a single i)air of anal glands, 

 it is in the highest degree probable that I/)/cena brvnnea is 

 similarly supplied, with the difference that each of these 

 glands is tripartite instead of simple. 



Prol)ably the correct way of expressing the facts is to say 

 that in the Hyienidie and ProteU'S the normal pair of anal 

 glands is retained, usually unmodified in form [H. hijfena 

 Crocuta, and Proteles), but sometimes j)artially subdivide(l 

 iiit(j three eonpartnients [H. krunuea) \ and that, e.\eei)t in 

 H. hrnnnea, certain cutaneous glands of the anal pouch 

 adjoining the saccular glands are enlarged ami active, and 



emit their secretion by separate pores into the anal pouch 



the most highly developed of these form a great mass out- 

 side and above the saccular gland on each side {H. hycena) 

 or are arranged in a band between these glands {('rocuta). 



Enough has been said to show that the anal sack and 

 glands of Proteles resemble those of the hyicnas toleriibly 

 closely : but, since Flower's figure only displays the parts 

 dissected from the dorsal aspect, 1 take this opportunitv of 



