THE SPOTTED HY.ENA. 209 



A hyaena at Exeter 'Change, some years since, was so tame as 

 to be allowed to walk about the exhibition-room. He was 

 afterwards sold to a person who permitted him to accompany 

 him in the fields, led by a string. After these indulgences he 

 became the property of a travelling showman, who kept hirr 

 constantly confined in a cage. From that time his ferocity 

 became quite alarming j he would not allow any stranger to 

 approach him, and he gradually pined away and died. 



Bishop Heber saw a gentleman in India, Mr. Traill, who 

 had a hya3na for several years, and which followed him about 

 like a dog, and fawned on those with whom he was acquainted. 



THE SPOTTED 



(Hytena Capensis, Desm. j H. crocuta ; Canis crocuta, L.) 

 Tiger Wolf. 



The spotted hyaena inhabits the south of Africa, more par- 

 ticularly the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope, where 

 the colonists call it the tiger-wolf. It does not appear that this 

 and the striped species are ever ' found inhabiting the same 

 district, but the limits of their territorial distribution have not 

 yet been distinctly ascertained. 



In its general shape the spotted hyaena much resembles the 

 striped, though it is ordinarily smaller; the mane is not so 



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