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small and nearly round crown, and that it is inserted only by a single root, whereas 

 the corresponding tooth of the striped species has two distinct roots. Then, again, 

 the lower flesh-tooth resembles that of the jaw figured on p. 482, in the small size 

 of its posterior heel, and also in the absence of a cusp on the inner side of the 

 blade. 



Owing to the disproportion in the length of the hind and fore-legs being much 

 less than in the striped hysena, the gait of the spotted hyaena is far less ungainly 

 and awkward-looking. 



The spotted hyaena occurs throughout Africa south of the Sahara, ranging on 



THE SPOTTED HY^NA (^ nat. size). 



the eastern side of the continent into Abyssinia and Nubia. At one time it 

 was very abundant in the Cape Colony, and Sir Samuel Baker bears testimony 

 as to its numbers on the Upper Nile in the neighbourhood of Kassala, while 

 Mr. H. H. Johnston attests its common occurrence on the plains around 

 Kilima-njaro. Formerly, however, the geographical range of this hyaena was 

 far more extensive than it is at present, as is proved by the vast quantities 

 of its remains found in the caves of various parts of Europe, from Gibraltar in 

 the south to Yorkshire in the north. It was formerly considered, indeed, that 

 the so-called " cave-hyaena " indicated a distinct species from the living one ; but 

 zoologists are now generally in accord in regarding the two as specifically 



