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new genus, and to publish a figure and description in the 50th fascicule 

 of the Mammif. Lithogr. 



More recently B. H. Hodgson, Esq., the zealous zoologist of Northern 

 India, has had an opportunity of examining in its native country, all 

 the peculiarities of the anatomy, external form, and habits of this 

 interesting animal. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. XVI. 

 p. 1113, from which we extract the following: " Nepalese Ailurus. 

 Above, deep ochreous red ; below and the ears, entire limbs and tip of 



tail, jet black. Head and tail paler than the body, and fulvous* 



Face, chin, and lining of the ears, white. From eyes to gape, a bread 

 vertical line of ochreous red, blending with the dark inferior surface. 



Hairy pads albescent. Moustaches white. Eyes deep brown. 



Nude muzzle black. Snout to vent twenty- two inches. Head five and 

 a half. Tail sixteen. Height, nine to nine and a half. Weight seven 

 to eight pounds. Pelage very thick, loosely applied to the. skin, of two 

 sorts ; the outer hair, rather harsh than fine, straight, of moderate equal 

 length (one and a half inch), and covering every part of the animal save 

 the extremity of its nose ; the inner vest shorter, sparer, and woolly. 

 Internally the pelage is dusky ; externally, deep ochreous : and on the 

 back the hairs are more or less tipt with fulvous, especially in old age. 

 In their general appearance the Wahs are quite unique. They have a 

 short sharp conic face, ending in a neat round muffle, in which the dog- 

 like nostrils are pierced anterio-laterally ; a small unprominent eye, 

 situated nearer to the nose than to the ear, and having a round, nearly 

 unchangeable pupil ; rather small moustaches and minor tufts over the 

 eyes, behind the gape, on the cheeks and on the chin ; a broad rounded 

 head ; moderate sized, highly but remotely placed ; ears of a narrow 

 concoid form tending to a point, and almost hid by their ample confluent 

 lining and tufts ; a longish yet thick neck and body ; short, strong, 

 plantigrade limbs, ending in large very mobile pentadactylous feet, 

 armed with feline talons and enveloped in woolly socks with leporine 

 completeness ; and, lastly, a long, thick, cylindrico-tapering tail, which 

 is trailed like a fox's brush and neither convolved with the Pciradoxuri, 

 nor prehensile with the Arctictes and Potos, close as undoubtedly is the 

 relationship of these genera, and especially the last named, to Ailurus. 



" These quiet inoffensive animals, in their manner and diet, much 

 resemble the Badgers of our land, the Lemurs of Madagascar, and the 

 Racoons, Coatis, and Potos of America, the last most nearly ; but as 

 few persons are familiar with these animals, I shall, to avoid the 



* This paler hue displayed in frequent rings on the tail. 



