Till: STRIPED IIVKN \. 



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When the hyivna is represented as laughing the representation is correct, as its broken roar is 



singularly like :ni r\, iterated human laugh. 



THE SPOTTED HYAENA.* 



-Mi:. STEEDMAX gives most appalling accounts of the rapacity of the Spotted Hytenas in South Africa. 



lie states that Mr. Shepstone, iu a letter from Mamlmlan.l, relates that tlu-ir nightly attacks have l-,-n 



THE HY.J.NA OF ALGERIA. 



very destructive among the children and youth ; for, within a few months, not fewer than forty 

 instances came to his knowledge in which they had made a most dreadful havoc. 



" To show clearly," says that gentleman, " the preference of this animal for human flesh, it will be 

 necessary to notice that when the Mambookies build their houses, which are in form like beehives, and 

 tolerably large, often eighteen or twenty feet in diameter, the floor is raised at the higher or back part 

 of the house, until within three or four feet of the front, where it suddenly terminates, leaving an area 

 from thence to the wall, in which every night the calves are tied, to protect them from the storms, or 



* Hvuinn Crocuta. Zimmerman. H. Maculata. Humboldt. 



