ME. G. BUSK ON THE EXISTING SPECIES OE HT^NA. 71 



regarded as the types of two distinct genera, which bear the same 

 relation to each other as do the Liunsean subgenera or (as he 

 would himself regard them) genera of Oivetta and Genetta. He 

 instances among other particulars in which these genera may be 

 said to present analogous characters, the presence in Oivetta and 

 the absence in Genetta of the anal follicle, as well as the pos- 

 session by the former genus of an erectile mane, and of stripes, 

 &c., in which it resembles the "Striped Hyena;" whilst the spotted 

 fur of Genetta and the absence of an anal pouch and of a mane 

 would point out the analogy between that genus and that of 

 Grocuta^. He consequently regards Pennant's genus Hyena as a 

 family containing two genera Sycena and Crocuta, with respect 

 to the latter of which he says, " Two species can with certainty be 

 referred to this genus, both of which must have lived in Europe. 

 One species still lives in Africa, and this the H. crocuta.'''' Under 

 these two species of Grocuta it is obvious that Kaup included R. 

 spelaea as the one which formerly inhabited Europe. And it is clear 

 that he recognized only one species of the genus besides this. 



Cuvierf observes that there are two varieties pretty well 

 marked, if not species, among the spotted Hyenas. " Some," he 

 gays, " are of a whitish grey approaching tawny, and have brown 

 spots, round and well defined, on the flanks and thighs ; those on 

 the shoulder form a band which is continuous with a longitudinal 

 brown line on each side of the neck ; the feet are whitish, tinged 

 with red towards the bottom ; the tail is ringed with white and 

 brown at the base, and blackish in its lower two-thirds ; the head, 

 of the same general colour as the back, presents a little brown 

 towards the cheeks, and of red towards the vertex. 



" Other spotted Hyenas have a denser coat, of a decided reddish 

 grey ; the underside of the neck and of the body, only, whitish ; 

 the blackish spots, which are ill defined, occupy the sides, the 

 haunches, and the thighs, and a blackish band is also visible on 

 each side of the neck ; the legs and feet are blackish ; but the 

 inner side of the fore legs is reddish white ; the tail is of a rusty 

 brown colour for its first half, and blackish for the rest of its 

 length. The head is reddish, blackish in front and between the 

 the eyes ; the lower part of the forehead rusty brown." "This 

 variety," he says, " is common round the Cape." 



* Having lately examined a living H. crocuta in the Zoological Grardens, I 

 can confirm Kanp's statement tliat no trace of a pouch between the root of the 

 tail and the anus exists, at any rate in the male of that species. 



t L. c. p. 319. 



