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CARNIVORA. 
consequently, almost every new-discovered country 
affords considerable zoological novelties, it may well 
be conjectured, that these hundred thousand un- 
known leagues of Africa must be capable of furnish- 
ing a very considerable increase to the present im- 
proved catalogue of animals. 
Thus our knowledge of the genus hyaena has 
been increased, through the discoveries of recent 
travellers, by some additional species, or varieties, of 
which we are enabled to present figures ; but we 
shall first give some account of the striped hyaena, 
(that of the ancients), and the spotted species of 
Southern Africa. 
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