The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . :f^ ?^ ^*3. A^ >#. ->*»^s«^^ ^W 5. .%/} fe, PLATE IX 1. Biaturong. 7- Short-tailed Panda. 2. Striped Hya:na. 8. Himalayan Brown I 3. Tibetan Wolf. 9. Tibetan Blue Bear. 4. Indian Wolf. 10. Himalayan Black Bea 5. Wild Dog. II- Malay Bear. 6. Himalayan Panda. 12. Sloth-Bear. ear. The Striped Hyaena 335 THE STRIPED HYAENA {Hycena striata) Native Names.—Lakar-hagha, Lakar-bagh, or Lakra, Jhirak, Hondar, Harvagh, and Taras, Hindustani, in different parts of the COUNTRY ; Taras, Mahrathi and Sindi ; C/wrak, Sindi ; Aptar\ Baluchi ; Reiihra of


The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . :f^ ?^ ^*3. A^ >#. ->*»^s«^^ ^W 5. .%/} fe, PLATE IX 1. Biaturong. 7- Short-tailed Panda. 2. Striped Hya:na. 8. Himalayan Brown I 3. Tibetan Wolf. 9. Tibetan Blue Bear. 4. Indian Wolf. 10. Himalayan Black Bea 5. Wild Dog. II- Malay Bear. 6. Himalayan Panda. 12. Sloth-Bear. ear. The Striped Hyaena 335 THE STRIPED HYAENA {Hycena striata) Native Names.—Lakar-hagha, Lakar-bagh, or Lakra, Jhirak, Hondar, Harvagh, and Taras, Hindustani, in different parts of the COUNTRY ; Taras, Mahrathi and Sindi ; C/wrak, Sindi ; Aptar\ Baluchi ; Reiihra of the Gonds ; Hebar-kiila, Ho-Kol ; Derko-tiid IN the Rajmehal Hills ; Dhopre, Korka ; Kirba and Ki/t-kirba, Canarese ; Diimul-gundii and Korim-giiiidii, Telegu ; Kahithai-korachi, Tamil (Plate IX. Fig. 2) Hysnas are among the few animals for whom no one has a good wordto say ; and it must be confessed that they are attractive neither in personalappearance or in habits. But in spite of this they are decidedly useful andbeneficent creatures, being perhaps the most efficient of all scaven


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