most Immediately became fierce, and he would nd 

 longer admit of the approach and carresses of 

 liis visitors. He did not long survive this change 

 of -life, but gradually pined away till he died. 



Mr. John Hunter had atEarle's Court, an Hyaena, 

 near eighteen months old, that was so tame as to ad- 

 mit strangers to approach and touch him. On Mr. 

 Hunter's death he was sold to a travelling exhibi- 

 tor of animals. For a few months previously to 

 his being carried into the country, he was lodged 

 in the Tower. The keeper informs me that he 

 there continued tolerably gentle, so much so as to 

 allow a person who knew him, to enter the den and 

 handle him. When he was confined in the cara- 

 van he soon exhibited symptoms of ferocity equal 

 to those of the most savage Hyaenas. He was at 

 last killed by a Tiger, the partition of whose den 

 from his own, he had torn down by the enormous 

 strength of his jaws. 



The Hyaena in confinement is allowed about four 

 pounds weioht of food In the day ; and he laps 

 about three pints of water. 



The value of a full-o;rown Hvoena for exhibitlori 

 is liom ten to thirty pounds. 



THE SPOTTED HYiENA*. 



This is a larger, more strong and voracious ani- 

 mal than the last. The strength of its jaws is so 

 great that it eats without ditticulty even the strongest 



See vol. i. p. 240. 



