i; THE STRIPED HYZENA. 73 
marked and unquestionably distinct species, the Striped 
Hyena, or Hyena vulgaris of modern zoologists, which 
there can be no doubt is also the Hyena of the ancients; 
and the Hyena crocuta, or Spotted Hyena, the Tiger 
Wolf of the colonists of the Cape of Good Hope. To 
these may probably be added a third species, which 
there is good ground for believing to be distinct, and 
which has lately been described by Dr. Andrew Smith, 
the superintendant of the South African Museum, under 
the name of Hyzna villosa: this is also a native of the 
vicinity of the Cape, and is denominated by the settlers 
the Strand Wolf, or Strand Jut. With the two latter 
we have, however, on the present occasion, no concern; 
the only animal of this genus in the Tower belonging to 
the striped race, which inhabits the greater part of Asia 
and of Africa, penetrating in the former as far as India, 
and extending over all the northern part of the latter 
continent. It does not ‘appear that the striped and 
spotted races are ever found to occupy the same ground ; 
but the territorial limits which separate the one from the 
other have not yet been distinctly ascertained. 
The striped Hyena has for its ground colour a uni- 
form brownish gray, which is somewhat darker above 
than beneath. On the sides of the body it is marked by 
several irregular distant transverse blackish stripes or 
bands, which are more distinct on the lower part. 'To- 
wards the shoulders and haunches these stripes become 
oblique, and they are continued in regular transverse 
lines on the outside of the legs. The front of the neck 
is completely black, as are also the muzzle and the 
outsides of the ears; the latter being broad, moderately 
long, and nearly destitute of hairs, especially on the 
