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F A M I L Y U II S I D .E . 

 GENUS URSUS. 



URSUS MAI.AYANUS. 



Cl's/is inal(t\auus^ Raffles, Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii., p. 2^4 

 (1822). 



Size small. Fur short and coarse. Claws well cur\'ed. 

 Ears small, rounded, covered with short hair. Tongue very 

 long. Skull in adults very short and broad, nose short, 

 zygomatic arches wide. Auditory bullae more swollen than in 

 U. arctiis or U. torqiuitiis. Incisor and canines large, premolars 

 crowded and soon lost. Upper sectorial very small, its trans- 

 verse section scarcely larger than that of the outer incisor. 

 Molars short and very broad. 



Colour — Black, brownish in parts. The muzzle, including 

 the eyes and the chin, paler, often whitish ; the crescentic 

 patch on the chest white, yellow, or orange, with the two end 

 often broad, sometimes united into a large oval or heart-shaped 

 spot with a black centre, and sometimes with the apex prolonged 

 into a white streak on the abdomen. Claws pale horny, some- 

 times dusky. 



Dimensions — Head and body, about 4-ft. ; tail, 2 inches ; 

 hind foot 7 inches. 



This little Bornean bear is fairly common both in the low 

 country and on the mountains to the height of 3000-ft. It is 

 very fond of feeding upon the honey of a very small bee called 

 by the Dyak ' Kalulut,' and I have seen holes in trees of hard 

 wood made by the bear with its claws in its endeavours to get 

 at a nest of these bees. The bees usually have but a very 

 small hole for an entrance. Bears are not eaten by the natives 

 of Borneo as a rule, as people who eat bears' flesh are supposed 

 to go mad. The skins are often used for war coats, and the gall 

 bladder ('impadu ') is readily bought by the Chinese traders from 

 the natives for medicinal purposes. The Dyaks call a bear 

 ' Jugum,' the Kayans ' Buang,' and the Malays ' Bruang.' 



Hab. Baram River (C. Hose). Suai River (E. Cox). 

 Mount Dulit 2000-ft. (C. Hose). Ridan River (E. Cox). 



on DE W IXSECTIVOR A. 



F AMI L Y T U P AIID.E. 



GENUS T U P A I A . 



TUPAIA JAVANICA. 



Tupam Javaju'ca, Horsfd. Zool. Resch. in Java, 1822, fig. 



Dr. Giinther in his paper on Bornean Mamuial in the 



P.Z.S., May i6th, 1876, p. 426, remarks that "Distinct as this 



