XIV. On the Female Generative Organs, Viscera, and Fleshy Parts of Hyena brunnea, 
Thunberg. By James Morin, W.D., P.LS., F.GS., &c., Lecturer on Compara- 
tive Anatomy, Middlesex Hospital, late Prosector to the Zoological Society of 
London. 
Read February 14th, 1867. 
[Puave LXTIL.] 
A CARNIVOROUS animal so well known to naturalists and anatomists as the Hyena 
is unlikely to be a form yielding much that is new to science in the structure of its 
organs as ordinarily dissected. But whilst nothing rare or striking in this sense is 
offered, there nevertheless are two points which may bear closer investigation and 
further illustration than they have already received. These, the postanal pouch and 
glands‘, it is more especially the object of the present paper to describe and figure in 
the Brown Hyena (Hyena brunnea, Thunb.’), the so-called “ Strand-Wolf” of the Cape. 
In addition to the record of my dissection of those parts, I have appended notes on the 
soft tissues generally. 
Of the specimen I need only say that it was a perfect example of the species, both 
as regards development, colouring, and coat. The skull, seen both by Mr. Busk and 
Professor Flower, authenticated the external characters. The animal, which had lived 
in the Society's Gardens about thirteen years, died on the 13th of August, 1866. 
The following were its dimensions :— 
inches. 
From tip of nose to that of tail (ina straight line). . . . . . . . 53 
The hair, however, extended beyond the tail 8 inches, which gives . . 61 
Head in length from tip of nose to occiput . . . . . . . . . . 123 
Tail from its root to tip . . . NCTE EES se crasty) 2 8 
Height from of sole fore foot to aheatie®: . 28 
Height from sole of hind foot to behind loins Maa nie Seae (one ie eee 
Girth of body, behindithetore limbs". 2097 (9% .. . -.- + «+ 36 
Girthetaaiddle ofipouyec. a). ad teiee eee ge +, 40 
Girth in front of the hind legs 3 
Girth of head before the ears. : 2 
Gitthto@head roundithesmuzzlemmre oO). we eee. « . 9. «2 Log 
Girth of neck just behind the ears 2 
1 Daubenton, in Buffon’s Hist. Nat. tom. ix. p. 287, pls. 28, 29, describes and figures the said parts of 
H. striata. In John Hunter’s dissection of the Striped Hyena (vid. ‘Essays and Observations,’ edit. by 
Professor Owen, Lond. 1861, vol. ii. p. 58) these parts and the male and female generative organs are noted. 
The original preparations exist in Coll. of Surgs. Mus. Preps. nos. 2148 to 2151. 
2 « Beskrifning och Teckning pa ett nytt species Hyena brunnea, Tab. 1,” in K. Vetensk. Handl. Stockholm, 
1820, p. 59. 
432 
