CHAP. XVII.] 



MAMMALIA. 



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from Coban in Guatemala, in wliich country it has also been 

 observed by Mr. Salvin. 



Fossil Procyonidm. — A species of Nasua has been found in the 

 bone caves of Brazil, and a Procyon in the Pliocene or Post- 

 pliocene deposits of Illinois and Carolina, 



Family 31.— ^LUPtlD^. (2 Genera, 2 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical Nearctic 

 Sob-regions. Sub-regions. 



Pal^arctic 

 Sub-regions. 



Ethiopian 

 Sub-regions. 



Oriental 

 Sub-regions. 



Australian 

 Sub-regions. 



The Panda {^lurns fulgens), of the forest regions of the 

 Eastern Himalayas and East Thibet, a small cat-like bear, has 

 peculiarities of organization which render it necessary to place 

 it in a family by itself. (Plate VII. vol. i. p. 331). An alUed 

 genus, ^luropus, a remarkable animal of larger size and in 

 colour nearly aU white, has recently been described by Professor 

 Milne-Edwards, from the mountains of East Thibet ; so that the 

 family may be said to inhabit the .border lands of the Oriental 

 and Palsearctic regions. These animals have their nearest aUies 

 in the coatis and bears 



Family 32.— UESID^. (5 Genera, or Sub-genera, 15 Species.) 



The Bears have a tolerably wide distribution, although they 

 are entirely absent from the Australian and Ethiopian, and almost 

 so from the ISTeotropical region, one species only being found in 

 the Andes of Peru and Chili. They comprise the following 

 groups, some of which are doubtfully ranked as genera. 



Thalassarctos, the polar bear (1 species) inhabiting the Arctic 

 regions ; Ursus, the true bears (12 species), which range over 



