MAMMALIA. 705 



caracal SCHREB., BUFF. xx. Tab. 24, is native of Africa and Persia. In 

 the North of Europe occurs Felis lynx L., BUFF. ix. Tab. 21, of which Felis 

 cervaria TEMM. and NILSS. and Felis virgata NILSS. are only varieties; 

 NILSSON Skandinavisk Fauna, 2 Uppl. Lund, 1847, pp. 128, 129. 



/> s* 



Family XXXIV. Viverrina. Molar teeth mostly -^ ^ , three 



b b 



false on each side in upper jaw, three or four in lower. Only a 

 single tuberculate tooth on each side in lower jaw or none, almost 

 always two tuberculate teeth on each side in upper jaw. Feet 

 mostly digitigrade, either pentadactylous or tetradactylous, with 

 claws often semi-retractile. Glandular follicles between the anus 

 and genitals, secreting a sebaceous matter of disagreeable odour. 

 Tongue rough with rigid papillae directed backward. 



The Civets. The limits of this family cannot be sharply drawn, 

 if we unite the genus HycBna with it, and not with the preceding, 

 which agrees indeed with Felis in the molar teeth, in the absence 

 of a tuberculate molar in the lower jaw, but in other respects has 

 little affinity with it. "We are disposed however to prefer natural 

 affinity to a strict and severe adherence to a single character, and 

 with WATERHOUSE regard the Hyaenas as a small divergent group 

 of civet cats. 



Hycena BiHSS., PENNANT, STORE. Molar teeth -r^-r, thick, 



33 44 



false molars K- -$ , a single tuberculate tooth on each side in upper 



jaw, in lower jaw none. Feet all tetradactylous. Trunk short, 

 declining backwarks from the shoulders. Tail short. (Dent. 



o o -1-1 A A 11 



form. OWEN, * 3- 3 > c - 7 T > P- o 5]* m. 7^77 = 34). 







Sp. Hycena striata ZIMMERM., BODE., Canis Hycena L., BUFF. SuppL in. 

 PL 46, SCHREB. Tab. 96, Menag. du Mm. i. pp. 256 270; the hycena; 

 in North Africa, Asia Minor, Arabia and Persia. Compare on the 

 anatomy DAUBENTON, BUFF. rx. pp. 280 298 and G. E. KEIMANN 

 Spicttegium observationum anat. de hycena, Berolini, 1817 ; Hycena crocuta 

 BODD., Canis crocuta ERXL., GM., SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 96 B, Cuv. 

 R. Ani,, ed. itt., Mammif. PI. 40, fig. i ; in South Africa, at the coast of 

 Guinea and in Senegal ; this species in the neighbourhood of the Cape 

 Colony is usually named wolf; Hycena brunea THUNB. (Act.Holmiens. 1820), 

 Hycena vittosa SMITH, Trans, of the Linn. Soc. xv. 2, 1827, pp. 461 468, 

 PL 19, GUEB. Iconogr., Mammif. PL 18, fig. i; the strand-wolf of the 

 colonists in South Africa. This whole genus is peculiar to the eastern 

 hemisphere. There are 15 or 1 6 dorsal vertebrae (15 or 16 pairs of ribs) 

 and 4 or 5 lumbar vertebrae. The tibia and fibula are much shorter than 



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