126 CATALOGUE. 



&c., and honey. When pursued, they carry their cubs on their back. 

 In 1833 a bear was chased and killed, having carried her cubs in this 

 manner nearly three miles. It appears to be a long-lived animal. 

 Instances are known of their living in a state of captivity for forty 

 years." (Madras Journ. X. p. 100.) In the seventh volume of the 

 fourth edition of Cuvier's Ossem. Foss., that author gives full details of 

 the osteological peculiarities of this species. 



e. AILUBJNA, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. Syst. 

 List. XXI. 



Genus AILURUS, Fr. Cuv., HardwicJce, et al. 



139. AILURUS FULGENS, Fr. Cuv. et Geoffr., Mamm. 

 lithogr. fasc. 50. 



Ailurus fulgens, Hardw., Trans. Linn. Soc. XV. p. 161, 



with illustrations of the teeth and extremities (Note by 



Secretary). Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 75. Cat. 



Hodgs. Coll. p. 15. Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 157. 



Hodgson, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1834, 96. Journ. As. 



Soc. Beng. I. 340 ; X. 909. Calc. Journ. N. H. IV. 



287. Schinz, Syn. Mamm. I. 314. 

 Ailurus ochraceus, Hodgs., Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XVI. 



p. 1118. 

 PANDA, Fr. Cuv. 

 WAH, OA, UKTONKA, SAKNAM, THONGWAH, and THO-KYE, 



of the Tibetans, Nepalese, and Sikimites, Hodgson. 

 Wah and Chitwa, Hardwicke. 



HAB. The declivities of the Sub-Himalayas, North and South, 

 between 7,000 or 8,000, and 12,000 or 18,000 feet of 

 elevation, Hodgson. 



A. Presented by Maj.-Gen. T. Hardwicke. 



B. Presented by I. T. Pearson, Esq. 



The discovery of this animal is due to Major-General Thomas 

 Hardwicke, who communicated a description of it to the Linnean 

 Society of London, which was read on the 6th November, 1821. The 

 cause of the delay of publication, for several years, in the Transactions 

 of the Society, is explained in a note by the Secretary appended to 

 General Hardwicke's paper. Meanwhile, a specimen forwarded to 

 Paris by M. Duvaucel enabled M. Fred. Cuvier to name and define the 



