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evening came on, its liveliness and restlessness would increase. 

 It was then full of animation traversing the space allotted 

 to it in every direction examining every object within its 

 reach rolling and tumbling about, and swinging to and fro 

 from the wires of the cage : nor was its good-humor abated ; 

 it would gambol and play with its keepers, and exhibit in 

 every movement the most surprising energy. In this state 

 of exercise it would pass the night, retiring to rest on the 

 dawn of the morning. The age of this individual is not 

 ascertained ; the state of its teeth, however, which are much 

 worn down, shows it to have attained an advanced period ; 

 its color was a pale yellowish grey, inclining to tawny ; the 

 hairs, in certain lights, having a glossy appearance. Its dis- 

 section after death fully confirmed the propriety of assigning 

 it a place among the plantigrade carnivora. 



