THE STRIPED HYiENA. 



its gloomy abodes during the day, and it never forfakes them till the 

 approach of night favours its horrid depredations ; it then rallies furioufly 

 on all kinds of cattle, and will fometimes attack men : it ravages Iheepfolds, 

 and deftroys whatever comes in its way, with infatiable voracity : inlhort, it 

 is ferocious without generolity, and cruel from innate principle ; when it can 

 get no other food, it will eat the roots of plants and tender moots of palm 

 trees. It is ever growling, except when receiving its food; it then erects the 

 briftles on its back, its eyes gliften, and it lhews its teeth, and appears 

 truly frightful. 



This animal inhabits Afiatic Turkey, Syria, Perlia, Barbary, and the 

 internal parts of Africa. The mperHitious Arabs have a notion that its head 

 may be applied to magical purpofes, to prevent which they always bury that 

 part. 



