58 VIVERRIDJ;. 



covered with hair ? Teeth 36 ; false grinders f . f ; tubercular 

 grinders f • f . 



Arctictis, Temm. Monogr. xx. p. 21, 1820 ? ; Gray, P. Z. S. 18G4, p. 525. 



Ictides, F. Cuvier ; Valenciennes, Ann. des Sci. Nat. iv. p. 57, 182o ; 

 Ferns. Bull. Sci. v. p. 266, 1825. 



Hah. Asia. 



Major Farquhar says, " It climbs trees, assisted by its prehensile 

 tail, in which it has uncommon strength." M. F. Cuvier (Mem. 

 Mus. ix. p. 46) doubts this fact ; but he is wrong, as any one may see 

 by observing the li\ing animal in the Zoological Gardens. 



Arctictis bintiirong. (Binturong.) B.M. 



Black. Younger with more or less long white tips to the hairs ; 

 young, pale dirty yellow. Varies in the quantity and length of white 

 tips of the hairs. 



Viverra ? binturong, Baffles, Linn. Trans, xii. p. 253. 



Arctictis binturong, Temm. Monogr. ii. p. 308 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, 



p. 525. 

 Arctictis penicillatus, Temm. Monogr. ii. t. 62 ; Miiller, Zoog. iiul. 



Arch. p. 32. 

 Paradoxurus albifrons, F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. ix. p. 44, t. 4 ; Matnm. 



Lithogr. t. 

 Ictides,'i^. Cuv. Dents des Mamm. p. 104, t. 34. 

 Ictides ater, F. Cuvier, 3fa7nm. Lithogr. t. 

 Ictides albifrons, Valenc. Ann. Sci. Nat. iv. p. 57, t. 1 ; F. Cuvier, 



Mem. Mus. ix. t. 4. 



Hah. Malacca (Mn-^'iJirtr, 1819) ; Sumatra (i?f«^es) ; Java (yem- 

 mlnclc); Tenasserim and Arracan {Cantor); Assam, Nepal (5i'?/^^). 



Skull of young animal elongate. Teeth 36 ; canines slender ; 

 grinders small and far apart ; the false grinders, first and second 

 conical, the third compressed ; the flesh-tooth small, triangular, inner 

 side rounded ; tubercular grinder oblong, trigonal, with a rounded 

 inner edge, larger than the flesh-tooth. Length of skull 4" 6'", of 

 nose 1" 6'"; width of brain-case 1" 7", of zygomatic arch 2" 4'". 



In the adult skull, false grinders ^ . §, compressed, the third 

 triangular ; the flesh-tooth triangular, as broad as long, inner edge 

 rounded, Avith the inner tubercle in the middle ; the tubercular 

 grinders small, the first triangular, somewhat hke the flesh-tooth, but 

 smaller, the hinder very small, cylindrical (Temm. Monogr. ii. t. 50). 



The skeleton agrees with Parado.varns in the large number (34) 

 of caudal vertebrae, but difl'ers from it in having a more plantigrade 

 character in the bones of the feet (Temm. Monogr. ii. p. 307). 



M. Temminck (Monogr. ii. p. 308) proposed to arrange P. aureus of 

 F. Cuvier with this genus, as it could not be classed with any other 

 group, observing that it is described from a very young specimen not 

 more than one or two months old ; and he objects to species being 

 described on such specimens. 



