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, CARNIVORA. 
or generally understood. If the procreative power 
of any two animals be made to determine this point, 
it seldom happens, that we have an opportunity of 
deciding it ; nor has any such opportunity been af- 
forded in the present instance. The markings of 
these two animals are different, as the plates will 
evince. Whether they be accidental, or hereditary 
and distinct, remains to be inferred from future re- 
searches in Africa. 
Mr. Temminck’s animal measured, from the muz- 
zle to the extremity of the tail, four feet ; its height 
before was twenty-one inches, and behind nineteen. 
Mr. Temminck states, on the authority of Mr. 
Burchell, and presuming both the individuals figured 
on the accompanying plate to be specifically the 
same, that this species is gregarious ; hunting its prey 
in packs, in open day. In this particular, therefore, 
it differs from the striped hysena, which is described 
as a nocturnal animal, hunting singly or in pairs, and 
attacking by surprise. Its voice, although much less 
rough and less disagreeable than that of the striped 
and spotted species, is between the guttural howl 
of the striped hy^na and the open barking of the 
dogs. 
