1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE URSID&. 689 
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219 f. Hodgson’s............... 1 03/10 96 92 6211/5 71 73 4/1 6 
PANS 2 So eas 1 0/9 95 112 412 55 31 5l9 91 6 
219 ¢c. Oldham’s (young) .../1 03/8 625 42 12 44 911 42 611 3 
Two of these specimens (g and c) have a much shorter nose than 
the generality of the skulls of U. torquatus ; but f, which has also 
a short tubercular grinder, like them has the nose of the skull of 
the usual length ; they all have rather narrow palates. The fore- 
head of fis convex and rounded. 
Skull elongate. Nose broad, compressed, the sides shelving 
above, and flat over the nasals ; nasals short, scarcely reaching to 
the front edge of the orbits. Orbits oblong, ovate, longitudinal. 
The forehead between the orbits convex, rounded, rather wider than 
the hinder part of the nose. The crown arched, the most convex 
part being in front of the condyles. The zygomatic arch narrow, 
elongate. The palate narrow, deeply concave in front, narrower be- 
tween the tubercular teeth, narrower behind, with a large elongate 
opening to the hinder nostrils, which has an arched front edge, and 
the side more than twice the length of the width of the front edge. 
The tubercular grinder very large, wide, oblong, as wide and much 
longer than the flesh-tooth. 
As in the other Bears, the skull varies in the width and form of 
the front edge of the opening of the hinder nostrils, and also a little 
in the surface of the palate. There is in the Museum a specimen 
of a young Bear, received from Mr. Oldham under the name of 
Ursus hindaicus arboreus, that has a wide front edge to the hinder 
nostrils; and the palate in front of the opening is concave, with a slight 
keel on each side; but we have a skull of a young Ursus tibetanus, 
from Mr. Hodgson, with a similar opening to the hinder nostrils. 
5. Ursus saponicus. 
Black ; fur short, dense, polished ; hairon sides of neck longer; 
face black, clothed with short hair ; ears large ; throat with a slight, 
undefined whitish line ; head short, rounded ; muzzle rather short. 
Ursus japonicus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 261, pl. xxxu. 
U. tibetanus, Temm. Fauna Japon. 29. 
Hab. Japan (Vivar. Soe. Zool.). 
6. Ursus rormosanus. B.M. 
Black ; hair short; chest with a large white crescentic mark. 
Sun-bear of Formosa (Ursus tibetanus ?), Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1862, p. 351. 
Ursus formosanus, Swinhoe, ibid. 1863, p. 380. 
Hab. Formosa, highest mountains in the interior (Swinhoe) 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1864, No. XLIV. 
