118 . VIVERRJD^E. 



Dentition: i. ?, c: ~ lt pm. Q, m. |=|; four lower premolars 

 sometimes occur, and the last upper molar is often wanting. 

 Canines large, compressed, very sharp behind, concave externally 

 in front of posterior edge. Molars small, rounded ; both they and 

 the incisors are slightly separate from each other. 



Vertebrae : C. 7, D. 13-14, L. 6-7, S. 3, C. 34. 



Only a single species is known. A good account of the anatomy 

 is given by Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 196, and 1878, p. 142. 

 Flower and Mivart have confirmed the view adopted by Blyth and 

 Jerdon, that the genus is closely allied to Paradoxurus. 



57. Arctictis binturong. The Bear-cat, or Binturong. 



Viverra ? binturong 1 , Raffles, Linn. Trans, xiii, p. 253. 



Arctictis biuturong, Temm. Mon. Mamm. ii. p.3U8 ; Cantor, J. A. S. B. 



xv, p. 192 ; Blyth, Cat. p. 49 ; Jerdon, Mam. p. 130 ; Blyth, Mam. 



Birds Burma, p. 26. 



Young, Assamese: Myottk-kt/d (Monkey-tiger), Burmese; Untarong, 

 Malay. 



Tail nearly as long as the head and body, very thick at the base, 

 clothed with bristly, long, straggling hairs, longer than those of 

 the body. Fur coarse and long, some piles longer than the rest of 

 the fur, especially on the back. 



In the skull the bony palate runs back for a considerable distance 

 above the posterior nares. No pterygoid 



Fig. 33. Arctictis binturong. 



Colour. Black, more or less grizzled on the head and outside of 

 the fore limbs, and sometimes throughout the body. Fur and under- 

 fur either black throughout or brown at the base. On the head 

 and outside of the fore limbs, and often on the back, there is a sub- 

 terminal grey or rufous-grey ring on the longer hairs. In young 



