THE STRIPED HYMN A. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting teeth, and two canine teeth, in each jaw. 

 Four toes on each foot. 



Tail Ihort; a tranfverfe orifice between it and the anus. 



Synonims. 

 Txim, Arift. Hift. An, lib. vi. c. 32. 

 Lupus marinus, Belon Aquat. 33. Gefner Quad* 

 Taxus porcinus, Kcempfer Amcen. Exot. 41 1. 

 Dub ha, Shaw's Travels, 246. 

 Canis Hy^na, Linn.SyJi. 58* 

 L'Hy«tEna, de Buffon, ix. 208. tab. xxv. 



THERE are two animals which bear the name of Hyaena, the Striped 

 and the Spotted; the former is the mbjecl: now treated of. As it appears to 

 have been but imperfectly known to the Greeks and Latins, it is not to be 

 wondered that the accounts they give of it are replete with the moft 

 ridiculous abfurdities; as, that it changes its fex and colour, &c. but the 

 diligent obfervations of more modern naturalifts have entirely exploded all 

 fuch fabulous nonfenfe, and its hiftory and properties are now as well 

 afcertained as thofe of any other wild beaft. 



The characters of this animal are fo lingular and ftrongly marked, that 

 it is impoffible to miftake them. It differs from moft quadrupeds, in having 

 only four toes on each foot. The fore-legs are longer than the hind ones, 

 its ears are pointed and devoid of hair, and the look of its eyes is 

 remarkably wild, accompanied with a peculiar, fullen fiercenefs. They mine 



