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THE HYiENA. 
The third species, commonly called the Caf 
jackal, from its inhabiting the territory of tl^^ 
Cape of Good Hope, like the preceding, reset*'' 
hies a fox, and is characterised by a triangul"’ 
mark of blackish gray upon the back, broa^ 
at the shoulders, and terminating in a poia' 
at the origin of the tail. 
THE HY^NA. 
Of the two varieties of the hy®na, 
striped and the spotted, which are spread oV^^ 
the greater portion of Africa and the southef'' 
half of Asia, the former is best known to E** 
ropeans : it is found both solitary and in n'* 
merous troops in Morocco and the forests 
w'estern Africa, in Syria and throughout Ind'"' 
The spotted hyaena roves in prodigious nui”' 
hers through Abyssinia, the territories of 
Cape, and the surrounding countries. 
