THE STRIPED HY ANA. 
HY#NA VULGARIS. Des. 
From the strongly marked group, to the illustration of 
various species of which the foregoing pages have been 
dedicated, we pass by a natural and easy transition to 
an animal, which, although closely resembling them in 
its zoological characters, and in the cowardly ferocity of 
its disposition, bears nevertheless a stronger affinity to 
the dogs, with which it was associated by Linneus. 
From each of these groups it is, however, readily distin- 
guished by several obvious and essential characters, of 
sufficient importance to sanction its separation as a genus, 
now universally adopted among naturalists. 
Like both the cats and the dogs, the Hyznas are 
