H Y JE -N A. 
fmooth : cars fliort, and a little pointed ; their out- 
fide black, infide cinereous : face, and upper part 
of the head black: body and limbs reddifh brown, 
marked with diflintd: round black fpots : the hind 
legs with tranfverfe black bars: tail fhort, black, 
and full of hair. 
Inhabits Guinea , ^Ethiopia , and the Cape: lives in 
holes in the earth, or cliffs of rocks : preys by night: 
howls horribly : breaks into the folds, and kills two 
or three flieep : devours as much as it can, and carries 
away one for a future repafl: will attack mankind; 
fcrape open graves, and devour the dead. M. de 
Buffon , milled by Bofman 's name of this animal, 
makes it fynonymous with the common jackal. Has, 
till the prefent time, been undiftinguifhed by natura- 
lifts. This defcription taken from one fliewn feme 
years ago in London . 
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