HVA NIDA 541 
zy; total 34. Teeth, especially canines and premolars, very large, 
strong, and conical. Upper carnassial (Fig. 245) with a very large, 
distinctly trilobed blade and a moderately developed inner tubercle 
placed -at the anterior 
extremity of the blade. 
Molar very small, and 
placed transversely close 
to the hinder edge of the 
last, as in the Felide, 
Lower carnassial con- 
sisting of little more than 
the bilobed blade. Zygo- 
matic arches of cranium : 
very wide and strong. Fic. 245.—Outer (4) and palatal (B) aspects of the right 
Sagittal crest high, giving SPR coms wth ot te Set Hyena, ens 
attachment to very power- 
ful biting muscles. Orbits incomplete behind. Vertebre: C 7, 
D 15,L5,8 4,C 19. Limbs rather long, especially the anterior 
pair, digitigrade, four subequal toes on each, with stout non- 
‘retractile claws. Pollex and hallux only represented by rudi- 
mentary metacarpal and metatarsal bones. Tail rather short. A 
large post-anal median glandular pouch, into which the largely 
developed anal scent glands pour their secretion. 
The three existing species of Hyzna are divisible into two 
sections, to which some zoologists assign generic rank, but fossil 
forms show such a transition between these two types as to render 
any such division impracticable. 
The typical or Huhycenine group presents the following dis- 
tinctive features. Upper molar moderately developed and three- 
rooted. An inner cusp and hind talon more or less developed on 
the lower molar. Ears large, pointed. Hair long, forming a mane 
on the back and shoulders. H. striata, the Striped Hyzena (Fig. 246) 
of Northern Africa and Southern Asia. H. brunnea, of South Africa, 
in some respects intermediate between this and the next group. 
The Striped Hyzna is dirty gray in colour, with narrow trans- 
verse tawny or blackish stripes on the body and legs ; the length of 
the head and body is 34 feet, and that of the tail, with its hair, 
14 feet. It occurs throughout peninsular India, where it is most 
common in open hilly districts, and in North Africa. Mr. Blanford! 
gives the following account of its habits: “It is a nocturnal animal, 
and although an occasional individual may be met with returning to 
its den in the early morning, its rambles are usually commenced after 
sunset and ended before sunrise. During the night it roams far and 
wide, and no tracks of wild animals are more common in the countries 
where it is found than its unmistakable footprints, very like a dog’s 
1 Fauna of British India, ‘‘ Mammalia,” p. 183 (1888). 
