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animal which has become wild. It is uncertain 
if the fox (canis vulpes) occurs in Africa ; but 
the wolf is common in many places ; and the 
jackall (canis aureus), which is probably the fox 
of holy writ, is abundant. 
The lio7i, which was formerly an inhabitant of 
the three quarters of the old world, is now prin- 
cipally confined to Africa, and a few bordering 
Asiatic districts. The panther and the leopard 
are also confined to Africa. Several other spe- 
cies nearly allied to those just mentioned, are 
described as peculiar to Africa, but their history 
is still involved in much obscurity. 
The hycena tribe is almost peculiar to Africa. 
In Southern Africa, we meet with the spotted 
bysena (Jiycena crocuta) ; and in the north, the 
striped hyaena {liycena striata), which occurs also 
in the Levant, Persia, and India. 
That remarkable quadruped, the maniSy which 
is incased in an armour of moveable horny scales, 
is confined to the old world, and one of the spe- 
cies entitled Manis tetradactyhy or long tailed 
manis, is found in Guinea, and also in Senegal. 
The myrmecopJiaga, or ant-eater, used to be 
reckoned amongst the native inhabitants of Af- 
rica ; but it has been ascertained that all the 
species of that genus are confined to the new 
world, and that the supposed ant-eater of the old 
world belongs to another genus, or tribe, entitled 
