The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . colour; such as The Malayan Bear (U. malayanna); from the peninsula beyond the Ganges to the islands of the Straits of Sunda.—Sleek [with comparatively short fur], a fulvous muzzle, and heart-shaped mark of the same colour upon the chest.[This, and another species, or perhaps variety, (U. eiayspi/tis,) with the whole chest fulvous, from Borneo, consti-tute the division Ilelarctos of Horsfield, or the Sun Bears. They are small, and of very gentle and i)layful
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . colour; such as The Malayan Bear (U. malayanna); from the peninsula beyond the Ganges to the islands of the Straits of Sunda.—Sleek [with comparatively short fur], a fulvous muzzle, and heart-shaped mark of the same colour upon the chest.[This, and another species, or perhaps variety, (U. eiayspi/tis,) with the whole chest fulvous, from Borneo, consti-tute the division Ilelarctos of Horsfield, or the Sun Bears. They are small, and of very gentle and i)layful dispo-sition, easily rendered quite tame.] It is very injurious to the cocoa-nut trees, which it climbs in order to devourthe tops, and drink the milk of the fruit. The Thibet Bear (U. t/iibeticus, F. Cuv.)—Black ; the under lip, and a large mark in the form of a Y on thebreast, white ; profile straight and claws weak. [Is intermediate to the preceding and species.] From themountains in the north of India. The most remarkable, however, of all these Indian Bears is the following, of which Illiger forms his Bi ; it being) of, those * We shall no longer repeat the words ftu rarh side, X:cunderstood that where the molars of one side are spokeof the other correspond. + Although it may seem presumptuous to attempt to set Cuvierrijfht in matters of this kind, it is nevertheless sufficiently ob%*inus, on analogical comparison of the Dears dentition with that ofproximulc(genera, that the third tooth in succession from behind represents theeuttiiig: or <-ariiivorous tooth in each jaw, there bcin^ two tubereulouagrinders in this and the 6ve succeeding genera (which together com-pose a distinct natural group), and one onlv in the remainder.—Kd. G 2 84 MAMMALIA.
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