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clavicles ai*e developed, in those that follow they arc im- 

 perfect. 



(a.) The three last grinders in each jaw, with tubercular 

 or flattened summits. 



Tail about the lengtJi of the body. 

 Tail prehensile. 



40. Cekcoleptes. Snout short, tongue slender and 

 extensile. Two tearing grinders. Vivcrra caudivolula, 

 Gm. 



'Tail simple. 



41. Procyon. Raccoon. Nose pointed. Ursus lotor^ 

 Lin. 



42. Nasua. Coati. Snout elongated. Vivcrra nasua^ 

 Lin. 



Tail very sliort. 



43. Ursus. Bear. Two recent species are known, the 

 Brown and White ; and two extinct species occur in the 

 limestone caves of Germany *. 



(6.) The two last grinders in each jaw, with tubercular or 

 flattened summits, 



44. Meles. Badger. A transverse glandular pouch or 

 scent bag, under the tail. M. Taxiis. 



* Mr.ScoRESBY, when describing the use of the White Bear as food, adds, 

 " The liver, I may observe, as a curious fact, is hurtful, and even deleteri- 

 ous ; while the flesh and liver of the seal, on which it chiefly feeds, are 

 nourishing and palatable. Sailors, who have inadvertently eaten the liver 

 of bears, have almost always been sick after it : some have actually died ; 

 and the elTect on others has been to cause the skin to peel ofF their bodies. 

 This is, perhaps, almost the only instance known of any part of the flesh 

 of a quadruped proving unwholesome,"— i\jct. Reg,, vol. i. p. 520. 



