HYENA HY.ENA. 
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HY.ENIDaE. 
HYtENA. 
Hyanna, Zimmermann, Spec. Zool. Geogr. 1777, p. 365. 
Four toes on both fore and hind feet. Skull without alisphenoid canal. 
Dentition : i. c. j, pm. m. | = 34. 
Hy.cENa HY.ENA, Linn. (Plate XXIX.) 
Canis hycena, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. 1758, p. 40; Sclireb. Siing. hi. 1778, p. 371, pi. xcvi. 
Hycena striata, Zimm. Spec. Zool. Geogr. 1777, p. 366 ; Riipp. Neue Wirb., Siiug. 1810, p. 40; 
Blanford, Geol. Zool. Abyss. 1870, p. 236; Fitzing. & Fleugl. SB. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, liv. 
i. 1866, p. 553; Hengl. N.O.-Afr. ii. 1877, p. 50. 
Hycena dubbah, Meyer, Syst. Summ. Zool. Entdeck. in Neubolland und Afrika, 1793, p. 94. 
Hycena vulgaris, Geoffr. St.-Hil. Descr. Egypte, 1828, ed. 8vo, xxiii. Suppl. p. 213. 
The specimen from which the drawing for the Plate was taken has been living for 
several years in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London. It was received 
from Egypt, but a more exact locality is not known. 
The hyaena has been casually mentioned by travellers in various parts of Egypt 
down to the coast at Alexandria. 
Capt. S. S. Flow er writes :—“ I have received both species from both Suakin and 
Omdurman, but have not been able to discover the actual localities where tlie 
individuals were caught. The natives distinguish them apart— H. striata being called 
■ Dab,’ while //. crocuta is called ‘ Murphyne.’ ” 
Hoskins, Piippell, and Heuglin state that hyaenas occur betw^een the two above- 
mentioned localities. 
Olivier (Voy. Emp. Othom. ii. 1804, p. 40) mentions their occurrence in the 
environs of Alexandria. 
Burckhardt (‘Travels in Nubia,’ 1819, p. 79) found them betw^een Assuan and 
Dongola. 
Most travellers translate the Arabic name into ‘Dubbah.’ 
Mr. Beadnell sends the following field-notes on this species:—“ The Striped 
Hyaena is found in the desert-margins of the Nile Valley from Cairo to Esneh (I do not 
know the countiy south of Esneh) and the desert surrounding the Fayum. In Baharieli 
Oasis I observed through my glasses wdiat I am pretty certain was a Striped Hyiena. 
Twice I have seen their tracks in the western part of the depression of Farafreh Oasis 
