THE STRIPED IIYJENA. 



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extremities are yellowish, with deep black transverse bands. The tail is black, with red hairs 

 towards the tip. 



As to habits, there is really nothing to add to what has already been said with regard to the 

 Spotted Hysena, except that it is especially common at the sea-side, and feeds a good deal on dead 

 bodies thrown upon the shore. It only dares to attack flocks when very hungry. 



THE STRIPED HYAENA.* 



The Striped Hysena takes the place of the spotted kind over the northern part of Africa. It also 

 extends into Asia, where it ranges over Asia Minor and Persia, and through India to the foot of the 



HY-ffiNAS IN AN ARABIAN OEMETEKY. 



Himalayas. Amongst other places, it is " common in every part of Palestine, and indifferent as to the 

 character of the country. We obtained the young occasionally in spring, and procured on Mount 

 Carmel the largest pair of adults I ever saw. The old rock-hewn tombs afford to the Hyaena convenient 

 covert. It attacks the graves even in the vicinity of towns."t 



In ground-coloiir it resembles the spotted kind, but instead of being marked with spots, its hide is 

 covered with complete black transverse bands like the hoops of a barrel, which extend downwards on 

 to the legs. It is as nearly as possible of the same size as the brown variety. 



As to its habits and characteristics, there is little to add to what has already been said of its 

 South African brother ; it follows the Lion for scraps, roams about the Arab cemeteries to dig up and 

 devour the dead, prowls round the towns and villages in Egypt and elsewhere to pick up offal, and is 

 always the same ugly, ill-conditioned, repulsive, and yet useful beast. For the Arabs and Egyptians 



* Hyccrta striata. 



f Canon Tristram. 



