B Y 2E N A. 
Six cutting teeth and two canine in each jaw. 
Four toes on each foot. 
Short tail ^ a tranfyerfe orifice between it and the 
anus* 
VMWto Arijlot. lift. An. lib. vi. c. Dubha Shaw's travels, 246. 
g2. Oppian Cjneg. III. 263. Hyaena Ruffe? s Aleppo, 59. 
Hyaena Plinii, lib. viii. c. 30. Canis Hyaena. C. cauda redta an- 
Lupus marinus Belon aquat . 33. nulata, pilis cervicis eredtis, au- 
Gefner quad. riculis nudis, palmis tetradadly- 
Taxus porcinus, five Hyasna ve- lis. Liu.fyjl.^%. 
Jterum. Kaftoar. Kamfer Aman. L’Hyaene deBujfon, ix. 268. tab . 
Exot. 411. xxv. Briffon quad. 169. 
H. with long fharp pointed naked ears: upright 
mane: high fhoulders : fore legs longer than the 
hind legs : hair on the body courfe, rough, and 
pretty long, of an afh color, marked with long 
black Itripes, from the back downwards-, others 
crofs the legs: tail very full of hair, lometimes 
plain, fometimes barred with black : fize of a large 
dog, but very ftrongly made. 
Inhabits Afiatic Purky^ Syria , Perfia , and Barbary: 
like the jackal violates the repofttories of the dead, 
and greedily devours the putrid contents of the 
grave ^ like it, preys on the herds and flocks; yet, 
for want of other food, will eat the roots of plants 
and the tender fhoots of the palms ; but contrary 
to the nature of the former, is an unfociable animal; 
is folitary, and inhabits the c'hafms of the rocks. 
The fuperflitious Arabs* when they kill one, care- 
* Shaw's Travels, 246, 
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