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body. These parts, above, are broader than in the true Ursi. 

 The neck is short and thick, the body cylindrical but gross and 

 heavy ; at the rump it is rather abruptly rounded towards the 

 thighs, which are stout and short. The anterior extremities are 

 somewhat longer and more slender than the posterior. The feet 

 are strictly plantigrade, but their naked callous portion is shorter 

 in the Bornean as well as in the Malayan Bear, than in other 

 species of the genus Ursus, Each foot has five toes which are 

 narrow, compressed, and fitted for a slight independent motion, 

 by which our animal is enabled, in some degree, to seize hold of 

 objects. All the toes of the hind foot and four toes of the an- 

 terior foot are disposed in the same line ; the thumb only of this 

 foot admits of a lateral motion, which is however not sufficient to 

 coiislitute a hand. The three intermediate toes are nearly of 

 equal length, the exterior toe is slightly and the interior one or 

 the thumb, more abruptly abbreviated. The claws are very long, 

 strongly arched, compressed, somewhat grooved underneath, 

 rounded above, narrow at the base and very gradually attenuated 

 to the point, which is transversely truncated and chiefly fitted for 

 digging the earth. Our animal however, as far as appears from 

 the analogous habits of the Malayan Bear, may be supposed to 

 climb with great agility. As far as I am enabled to determine 

 from the examination of a single specimen, the claws of the Hel- 

 arctos euryspilus are smaller than those of the H. Malayanus : 

 in the latter the claw of the middle toe measures along the cur- 

 vature, three inches; but the great length of these, which ap- 

 pears in the specimens preserved in various collections in London, 

 may in some measure be owing to the contraction of the fleshy 

 parts by drying. The tail measures about two inches in length j 

 but one half of this consists in a tuft of rigid hairs extending be- 

 yond the vertebrae. There are two pectoral and two ventral 

 mammae ; the latter are so indistinct that they had hitherto 

 escaped the notice of the keeper. The fur is short and glisten- 

 ing ; the separate hairs are scantily supplied with down at the 

 base, somewhat rigid, but closely applied to the skin and smooth 

 to the touch. On the forehead they are very short ; hence they 

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