THE SPOTTED HYMN A. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Four toes on each foot. 



Tail fhort, a tranfverfe orifice between it and the anus. 



Synonims. 



Jackall, or Wild Dog, Bof man's Guinea, 293. 

 Quumbengo, Churchill's Voy. v. 480. 

 Tiger-Wolf, Kolbens Cape, ii. 108. 

 Spotted Hy^na, Pennant's Syn. Quad. 119. 

 Hy^na, or Crocuta, Ludolph. CEth. 57. 

 Cani-apro-lupo-vulpes, Dejlandes Hift. de I' Acad, xxviii. 50, 8vo. edit. 



THIS animal greaty refembles the Striped Hyaena in its form and habits, 

 although it is evidently a difti'nft fpecies, and is not fo courageous. It 

 appears to have been imdiftinguifhed by naturalhis till lately, and we are 

 obliged to Mr. Pennant for the firlt accurate delineation and account of it. 

 Its general colour is a reddifh brown, marked with diftin6t, round, black 

 fpots, with tranfverfe, black bars on the hind-legs; its head is large and flat, 

 ornamented with long whifkers over each eye, and on the lips ; its face and 

 the upper part of its head are black : its ears are fhort and pointed, black on 

 the outiide and afh-coloured within. The top of the back and neck are 

 furnifhed with a fhort, black mane. 



It is very common at the Cape of Good Hope, where the inhabitants call it 

 the Tiger-Wolf. Dr. Sparrman defcribes it as a formidable, mifchievous, and 

 cruel animal. It lurks near the farm houfes, where cattle are kept, and prowls 



