STRIPED OR CRESTED HYENA .—Eycena striata. 
marked bands of a blackish -brown across the legs. The hair of this species is extremely long, 
and has a decided “set” backwards. 
Sometimes the brown hue of the f nr is washed with a warmer tint of chestnut, from which 
circumstance the animal has been termed “Crocuta ruf a, 5 ’ the latter word signifying a ruddy 
hue, and being applied especially to hair. 
The last of the three acknowledged species of Hyena is a larger and heavier built animal 
than either of the preceding species, from which it is easily distinguishable by the numerous 
and well-defined spots that are scattered over its body and limbs. The Spotted Hyeha, or 
Tiger Wolf, as it is generally called, is, for a Hyena, a fierce and dangerous animal, invading 
the sheep-folds and cattle-pens under the cover of darkness, and doing in one night more mis* 
chief than can be remedied in the course of years. 
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and serves for the attachment of the powerful muscles to which the animal owes its singular 
strength. So forcibly are these muscles exerted that the vertebrae of the neck are sometimes 
found to have united together — “ anchylosed” according to the professional term, on account 
of the violent tension to which they were continually subjected. 
The muzzle is but short, and the rough thorn-studded tongue is used, like that of the 
feline groups, for rasping every vestige of flesh from the bones of the prey. 
The Beown Hyeha is so named on account of the color of its fur, which is of a blackish- 
brown tint, diversified with a lighter hue upon the neck and throat, and a few indistinctly 
