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ings, but to empty them of their possible owners. The carrying off of 
young children is so frequent as to excite no more surprise than a bar-room 
fight on the frontiers, and when the hyena does not succeed in carrying off the 
child it will frequently take such liberal bites of its flesh that it might as well 
have had the remainder. On one occasion when a spotted hyena had secured 
an infant and escaped from the village, it for some reason dropped it unharmed 
before retreating in the presence of some unexplained terror. It is a vampire, 
which, though not sucking the blood, tears to pieces and mangles the faces of 
any native who can be approached by stealth. The hyena never attacks unless 
its prey is running away—except, of course, in such raids as have been 
described—and when intending to prey upon the cattle of the ranchmen or 
traveller, seeks first to induce them to run away. Livingstone, in his “ Zam¬ 
bezi,” tells of how he managed 
to induce a hyena to commit 
suicide. He hung a piece of 
meat just high enough up on 
a tree to make the hyena jump 
from the ground in order to 
reach the bait. He then planted 
a short spear in the ground, 
and the scheme working suc¬ 
cessfully the hyena impaled 
himself. 
The Asiatic Civet, or 
Zibeth {Viverra zibet ha), is 
whiter than the African civet 
and its tail is dark-ringed. 
It is very gentle when do¬ 
mesticated and quietly takes 
a place in the household. 
The Tangalung ( Viverra 
tangalunga ) has blacker mark¬ 
ings, and along the back is 
distinctly black. It has a short 
muzzle and finds its habitat 
in Sumatra. 
The Malayan Weasel, 
or Rasse ( Viverra malacensis ), is grayish-brown, with eight parallel lines of 
dark spots. It furnishes the favorite and most common perfume of Java. 
The Linsang, Sawtooth or Delundung (. Prinodon gracilis ), is found in 
Malabar and Java, is beautiful in coloring and so shapely as to have been 
named the graceful. It secretes no civet and has no pouches. Its ground- 
color is gray, but it carries four saddles of brown. From the flanks to the 
cheeks extend two dark bands. 
The African Civet ( Viverra civetta) is an object of desire on account of the 
civet contained in its pouch. It is Abyssinian in habitat, weasel-like in nature 
and black and white in coloring. Its lips and eyes are fringed with white and the 
ears are tipped with the same color. Its mane extends from the head to the 
end of its can and tail be erected at pleasure. Its greatest value is as a 
STRIPED HYENAS OF SAHARA. 
