CARNIVORA. 
Ill 
i.'’ 
THE VARIED HY^NA. HIENE PEINTE, VAR. DE M. TEM- 
MINCK. 
Hycena varicolor. 
The opposite figure under this name is from the 
animal before alluded to as belonging lately to Mr. 
Burchell. Mr. Temminck hardly admits it to be a 
variety of the last, for he says indeed, that they are 
parfaitement semblableJ^^ With all respect and de- 
ference for so high an authority, we cannot but think 
however, that there are sufficient external differences 
between the two individuals in question, to make 
the figure here given of each, interesting to the 
zoologist. 
It appears by Mr. Temminck’s Memoire^ that Mr. 
Burchell doubted, whether his animal were properly 
an hyaena ; but as this gentleman is likely to give 
to the public his observations upon it, which will 
doubtless be more valuable than any thing we can 
say on the subject, we shall merely add, that there is 
a greater apparent approximation to the dog obser- 
vable in both these animals, than in the two com^ 
mon species, though the decisive characters, which 
separate the hyaenas from the canine race, prevail 
in them. It is doubtless very probable, that they 
are mere accidental varieties; but the fore paws 
of Mr. Burchell’s appear much thinner and more 
pliable than those of Mr. Temminck’ s animal. 
