122 CATALOGUE. 



equally acceptable ; and it seldom lost the opportunity of springing 

 upon common fowls, when they happened incautiously to be feeding 



within the length of its chain This species burrows with great 



facility It sleeps much by day ; is watchful during the night ; 



discovering inquietude by a hoarse call or bark, proceeding from the 

 throat." (Trans. Linn. Soc. IX. pp. 115-6.) 



The genus Mellivora forms a natural transition to the second family 

 of this order : the 



UKSID^E, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mm. Syst. List. 

 XXI. 



a. URSINA. 



Genus HELARCTOS, Horsfield, Zool Journ. II. p. 221. 

 URSI Species, Horsfield, Fischer, et al. 



136. HELARCTOS MALAYANUS, Horsf., Sp. Zool 

 Journ. II. p. 234. 



Helarctos malayanus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Er. Mus. p. 73. 



Zoology of H.M.S. Samarang.p. 18. Cantor, Catal. 



of Malayan Mamm. p. 21. 

 Ursus Malayanus, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 254. 



Horsfield, Zool. Research, in Java, with a figure. 



Fischer, Synops. Mamm. p. 144. Muller, Over de 



Zoogd. van den Ind. Archip. p. 32. Cuvier, Ossem. 



foss. td. 4 me , VII. p. 197 and 218. Fred. Cuv. et 



Geoffr. Mamm. fasc. 47. Lesson, Manuel Mamm. 



p. 134. Vigors and Horsfield, App. to Life of Sir T. 



S. Raffles, p. 633. 

 BRUANG, of the Malays on Sumatra, Marsden and Raffles. 



HAB. Sumatra, Marsden and Raffles. Sumatra, Borneo, and 

 Malacca, Muller. Malayan Peninsula, Cantor. 



A. Presented by Sir T. S. Raffles. 



Mr. Marsden deserves the credit of having indicated the existence of 

 the Malayan Bear with the name of BRUANG, in Sumatra, and of 

 mentioning its habit of ascending the cocoa-nut trees to devour the 

 tender part or cabbage. (Hist, of Sumatra, second edition, 1784.) 



The first systematic account, so far as I have been able to ascertain, 



