THE HYENA-DOG. 81 
is stated that it at length became familiar with a dog, 
which was its constant companion. That which is at 
present in the Tower was brought to England in com- 
pany with the youngest of the Cape Lions. They agreed 
together extremely well; but as the Lion increased in 
size his play became too rough for his comparatively 
feeble companion, who was borne to the earth in a 
moment by the superior weight and strength of his 
antagonist. Mr. Cops therefore found it necessary to 
consign them to separate dens. Other companions for 
the Hyzna-Dog have, however, very recently been ob- 
tained, an interesting addition having been made to the 
stock of the Menagerie by the acquisition of a couple of 
Spotted Hyznas; a brief notice of which we subjoin, as 
well as their portraits by way of tail-piece, they having 
arrived during the progress of the present sheet through 
the press, and consequently too late for insertion in their 
proper place. 
In size the Sporrep Hyana, the Hyena Crocuta of 
naturalists, is somewhat inferior to the striped. Its 
muzzle, although short, is not so abruptly truncated 5 
and its ears, which are short and broad, assume a nearly 
quadrilateral figure. Its ground colour is yellowish 
brown; and the whole body is covered with numerous 
spots of a deeper brown, tolerably uniform in size, but 
sometimes not very distinctly marked, and occasionally 
arranging themselves in longitudinal rows. Its hair is 
shorter than that of the Striped Hyena, and although 
longer on the neck and in the central line of the back 
than elsewhere, does not form so distinct and well fur- 
nished a mane as in the latter animal. The tail is blackish 
brown, and covered with long bushy hair. 
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