STRIPED HYiENA. 
f Pale brown? striped with black? with up-* 
'CAtfZS Hyjena. ^ right mane , naked ears 9 strait ta%t % 
L and four-toed feet . 
The colour of the Hycena is a pale greyish brown ? 
accompanied by a tawny cast, and the whole body is 
marked by several distant blackish transverse bands, run- 
ning from the back downwards ; these bands are much 
more numerous, as well as of a deeper colour on 
the legs ; from the neck, along the upper part of the 
back, runs a strong bristly mane, the hair of which is 
near a span long, erect, and pointed with black; the head 
is broad and flat, and the eyes have the character of 
wildness and ferocity ; the nose is black ; the ears are long, 
sharp pointed, and nearly black ; the tail is short and very 
full of hair ; the neck is so remarkably stiff, that in 
looking behind, or in snatching obliquely at any object, 
he is obliged to move the whole body somewhat in the 
manner of a hog, and Vv r as hence supposed, by the ancients, 
to have only one bone in his neck. It is distinguished 
from the dog, by the greater strength of the limbs, by a 
remarkable fulness of the nose, and by having four toes 
on all the feet. 
