. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . stood moaning. But still her cubs notrising to follow her, she returned to them again; and, Avith signs of inex-pressible fondness, went round pawing them and moaning. Finding at lastthat they were cold and lifeless, she raised her head toAvards the ship, anduttered a growl of despair, which the murderers returned with a volleyof musket balls. She fell between her cubs, and died licking their Scoresby mentions a singular circumstance with respect to a
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . stood moaning. But still her cubs notrising to follow her, she returned to them again; and, Avith signs of inex-pressible fondness, went round pawing them and moaning. Finding at lastthat they were cold and lifeless, she raised her head toAvards the ship, anduttered a growl of despair, which the murderers returned with a volleyof musket balls. She fell between her cubs, and died licking their Scoresby mentions a singular circumstance with respect to a partof this animal. The liver, I may observe, as a curious fact, says he, ishurtful, and even deleterious; while the flesh and liver of the seal, on whichit chiefly feeds, are nourishing and palatable. Sailors who have inadver-tently eaten the liver of bears, have almost always been sick after it: somehave actually died; and the effects on others has been to cause the skin topeal off their bodies. This is, perhaps, almost the only instance knownof any part of the flesh of a quadruped proving unwholesome. THE LARGE LIPPED This animal, which Avas first brought from India about forty years ago,«ras at first misnamed the five-fingered, or ursine sloth. It has, however, 1 Ursus labiatus, Desm. 1L2 MAMMALIA—BEAR. nothing in common with the family of the sloths, but is a genuine curious quadruped is said to have been brought from the interior pariof Bengal, where it burrows in the ground. It is covered with blsck, shaffgy hair, which on the back is twelve inches long, where it divides andforms a kind of bunch. The hair on its head is short, and the snout isof a yellowish white. The tail is so short as to be scarcely visible. Itslips are thin and very long, and furnished with muscles, by which it canprotrude them in a most singular manner. Its legs and feet resemble thoseof the common bear, and on each foot it has five long, crooked, white claws,which it uses eithe
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