122 MAMMALS. 



the north-west of Spaiu : and that this is one of the grounds on which so much of the luiocene 

 Atlantis, as is imijlied in a western extension of Europe connecting these two lands, has been 

 founded. The county of Kildare, however, is quite out of the line of the Spanish plants ; but, 

 on the other hand, we must remember that a Bear is more locomotive than a plant, and the 

 variety of Bear which inhabited one part of the country would doubtless inhabit all.* It has 

 long since been driven into the more inaccessible parts of the most mountainous districts in 

 Europe. It was still foimd in Corsica in the sixteenth century. 



The Racoon (Map 27), with one exception, Procyon cancrivorus, found in tropical America, 

 is a North American plantigrade. Six species are known. It is replaced in South An\erica by the 

 Kinkajou (Cercoleptes caudivolvulus), and the Coatis, of which there are three. Three genera 

 (each represented by only one species) represent those smaller plantigrades in the Old World, viz. 

 tlie BiNTDRONG in Java, the Ailurus in Nepal, and the Osmotectes in the East Indian peninsula. 



* Wilde " On tbe Unmanufactured Animal Remains belonging to the Royal Irish Academy," in " Transactions 

 of the Royal Irish Academy," May, 1859. 



