Aristotle calls it by two names, _hyæna_ and _glanus_; names which we may be assured are applied to the same animals by comparing the passages wherein they are mentioned.[Q] The ancient Latins retained the name hyæna, and never adopted that of glanus. In the writings of the modern Latins, however, we find the _ganus_, or _gannus_, and _belbus_ employed as names for the hyæna. According to Rasis, the Arabians call it _kabo_, or _zabo_, names that appear to be derived from the word _zeeb_, which, in their language denominates a wolf. In Barbary the hyæna bears the name of _dubbah_, as appears from the description given of this animal by Dr. Shaw.[R] In Turkey it is called _zirtlaat_, according to Nieremberg; in Persia _kaftaar_, as stated by Kæmpfer; and _castar_, according to Pietro della Valle. These are the only names which seem actually to refer to the hyæna; though it is nevertheless probable that the _lycaon_ and the _crocuta_ of India and Ethiopia, of which the ancients speak, are no other than the hyæna. Porphyry expressly says that the _crocuta_ of the Indies is the hyæna of the Greeks; and, indeed, all they have written, whether true or fabulous, respecting the lycaon and crocuta, bears some analogy to the nature of the hyæna. But we shall make no further conjectures on this subject until we treat of fabulous animals, and the affinities they have with real ones. [Footnote Q: Aristotle Hist. Animal. lib. vi. c. 32. lib. viii. c. 5.] [Footnote R: The Dubbah is nearly the size of the wolf. Its neck is so exceedingly stiff, that when it offers to look behind, or even on one side, it is obliged to turn the whole body, like the hog, the badger, and the crocodile. Its colour is somewhat inclined to a reddish brown, with a few brown streaks of a darker hue, it has very long hairs on the neck which it can occasionally erect. Its paws are large and well armed, with which it digs up plants, and sometimes dead bodies from their graves. Next to the lion and panther, the dubbah is the most fierce of all the animals of Barbary. As it is furnished with a mane, has a difficulty in turning the head, and scrapes up dead bodies from their graves, it has every appearance of being the hyæna of the ancients. _See Shaw's Travels._]