128 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
GENUS AILURUS. 
No. 169. AILURUS FULGENS. 
The Red Cat-Bear (Jerdon’s No. 92). 
NaTIvE Names.—Wah, Nepal; Wah-donka, Bhot.; Sunnam or 
Suknam, Lepch. ; WVegalya, Ponya of the Nepalese (/erdon). In the 
Zoological Gardens in London it is called the Panda, but I am unable 
just now to state the derivation of this name. 
Hasitat.—Eastern Himalayas and Eastern Thibet. 
Ailurus fulgens. 
DescriPTion.— ‘Skull ovate; forehead arched; nose short; brain 
case ovate, ventricose; the zygomatic arches very large, expanded ; 
crown bent down behind” (Gray). The lower jaw is very massive, and 
the ascending ramus unusually large, extending far above the zygomatic 
arch, forming almost a right angle with equal arms. Hodgson’s descrip- 
tionis: “ Ursine arm; feline paw; profoundly cross-hinged, yet grinding 
jaw, and purely triturative and almost ruminant molar of A7zlurus ; 
tongue smooth; pupil round; feet enveloped in woolly socks with 
leporine completeness.” It walks like the marten ; climbs and fights 
with all the four legs at once, like the Paradoxuri, and does not employ 
its forefeet—like the racoon, coatis, or bears—in eating.” 
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