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never known Hycena striata to kill any animal larger 

 than a goat, and it is maialy a carrion-feeder. In the 

 Abyssinian campaign I met with several instances of 

 both cattle and mules being attacked by spotted hyaenas. 

 A fuU-grown cow just outside our camp at Ailat was 

 torn to pieces and entirely devoured by hysenas before 

 morning. These animals evidently collect iu consider- 

 able numbers. In India it is a common practice amongst 

 sportsmen to tie up young buffaloes or bullocks as baits 

 for tigers, in places haunted by those animals. In hun- 

 dreds of instances in which I have known this done, 

 I never remember one of the baits being killed by 

 hyaenas, although, after a bullock or buffalo is killed 

 by a tiger or leopard, hyaenas almost always feed on 

 the carcase. 



The striped hyaena is a noisy animal at night, but far 

 less so than H. crocuta, and there is a considerable 

 difference in the voice. 



Striped hyaenas are said to be sometimes seen in parts 

 of Abyssinia, and I heard from Mr. Munzinger that a 

 third smaller animal occurs near Massowa, which is much 

 dreaded by the natives, as considerable numbers of them 

 coUect and attack men. This may be Lycaon picta, and 

 not a hyaena. 



In gait Hycena crocuta is much less ungainly than 

 H. striata, the disproportion in the length of the legs 

 being much smaller.^ 



^ In the Catalogue of Carnivorous, &c. Mammalia in the British Museum, 

 1869, Hycena as restricted is said to have the legs subequal, and Crocuta to 

 have the hinder legs short. These characters should be reversed. 



