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AFRICA. 



ingly quick and graceful, and its countenance mild, lively, and pleasing. Its form was very 

 slender ; the head and body not being larger than those of a domestic cat ; yet its height and 

 length were nearly twice as great. 



The Hycena Dog (Hymna renalica) is a native of southern Africa, and is exceedingly fierce, 

 swift, and active. It hunts in packs, chiefly at night. It is smaller than the wolf, and is 

 completely untameable. The African Blood-hound is used, in Africa, for tracking an enemy 

 to his retreat, and also for hunting the gazelle, in which it displays infinite skill. It is very 

 elegant in its form. 



Jlfrican Blood-hound. Striped Hymna. 



The Striped Hijxna (H. villosa) is a native of Barbary, Egypt, Abyssinia, Nubia, Syria, 

 Persia, and the East Indies. It generally resides in the caverns of mountains, in the clefts of 

 rocks, or in dens, which it has formed for itself, under the earth. It lives by depredation, 

 like the wolf ; but it is a stronger animal, and seemingly more daring. It sometimes attacks 

 man, carries ofi^ cattle, follows the flocks, breaks open the sheep-cotes by night, and ravages 

 with a ferocity insatiable. By night, also, its eyes shine ; and it is maintained, that it sees 

 better than in the day. If we may credit all the naturalists who have treated of this animal, 

 its cry is very peculiar, beginning with something like the moaning of a human being, and end- 

 ing in a sound which resembles the sobs or retchings of a man in a violent fit of vomiting ; but 

 according to Ksempfer, who was an earwitness of the fact, it sounds like the lowing of a calf. 

 When at a loss for other prey, it scrapes up the earth with its feet, and devours the carcasses, 

 both of animals and men, which, in the countries that it inhabits, are interred promiscuously in 

 the fields. 



The Spotted Hyczna (/f. crocula) is a native of Southern Africa, and abounds in the neigh- 

 borhood of the Cape of Good Hope, where it 



Spotted Hyana. Zchra, 



The Zebra (Equus Zebra) is, perhaps, the handsomest and most elegantly clothed, of all 



