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south as German East Africa. Its habits are similar to 

 those of its relatives. 



THE BROWN HY.ENA. General colour, ashy brown, 

 with darker bands on the legs and hindquarters. A 

 yellowish white collar is present on the sides of the neck. 

 A mantle of long dark brown hair covers the body, 

 increasing the apparent size of the animal. The tail 

 is short and bushy. Ears large and pointed. 



This species, once numerous in South Africa, has now 

 been practically exterminated from the settled districts; 

 but in the north-western portion of Cape Colony, German 

 South- West Africa, parts of Rhodesia, and the northern 

 Transvaal, is still to be met with. It further extends to 

 Angola and German East Africa, and I noticed tracks 

 which seemed to belong to one of the species on the sea 

 shore between Ibo and Port Amelia in Portuguese 

 Nyasaland. 



In the north-eastern Transvaal the species is not 

 native to the low bush country, and is everywhere rare. 

 A few specimens have been secured from the kloofs and 

 ravines among the lower hills on the west of the Sabi 

 Reserve, at heights varying from 1400 to 2500 feet. 

 The majority of the natives of the low country to whom 

 I showed the skins had never seen or heard of the animal, 

 and consequently had no name for it ; but others, who 

 formerly had lived on the coast north of Delagoa Bay, 

 and along the lower course of the Limpopo River, recog- 

 nized them at once, and informed me that the Brown 

 Hyaena used to be not uncommon there. 



The Strand Wolf, as it is called in South Africa, is a 

 solitary animal, nocturnal in habit, and lying up by day 

 in deep ravines and thick bush. When its haunt is'near 

 the sea shore it is said to live on dead fish, crabs, and other 

 marine creatures. When met with inland it is an eater 



