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TITEREID.i:. 



Dentition : i 

 sometimes 



m. 1^1; four lower premolars 



6 1-1 4-4 



6^ ^- 1—1' P""*' 3—3' "" 2- 



occur, and the last upper molar is often ^^•anting. 

 Canines large, compressed, very sharp behind, concave externally 

 in front of posterior edge. Molars small, rounded ; both they and 

 the incisors are slightly separate from each other. 



Vertebrae: C. 7, D. 13-14, L. 6-7, S. 3, C. 34. 



Only a single species is known. A good account of the anatomy 

 is given by Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 196, and 1878, p. 142. 

 Flower and Mivart have confirmed the view adopted by Blyth and 

 Jcrdon, that the genus is closely allied to Paradoxurus. 



57. Arctictis binturong. The Bear-cat, or Binturong. 



Viverra ? binturoug, R<tffl.es, Linn. Trans, xiii, p. 253. 



Arctictis binturong, Temm. Mon. Mamm. ii. p.3i'8 ; Cantor, J. A. S. B. 



XV, p. 192 ; Blyth, Cat. p. 49 ; Jerdon, Mam. p. 130 ; Blyth, Mam. 



Birds Burma, p. 26. 



Yotmg, Assamese : 

 INIaiiiv. 



Myoiik-kyd (Monkey-tigei-), Burmese ; Untaromj, 



Tail nearly as long as the liead and body, very thick at the base, 

 clothed \\\t\\ bristly, long, straggling hairs, longer than those of 

 the body. Fur coarse and long, some piles longer than the rest of 

 the fur, especially on the back. 



In the skull the bony palate runs back for a considerable distance 

 above the posterior nares. No pterygoid fossa. 



Fig. 33. — Ardicfis binturovy. 



Colour. Black, more or less grizzled on the h(>ad and outside of 

 the fore limbs, and sometimes throughout the body. Fur and under- 

 fur either black throughout or brown at the base. On the head 

 and outside of the fore limbs, and often on tlie back, there is a sub- 

 tA'rminal grey or rufous-gr(>y ring on the longer hairs. In young 



