130 THE TOWER MENAGERIE. 
established by M. Duvaucel, and since published by 
M. F. Cuvier in his splendid Histoire Naturelle des 
Mammiféeres. The circumstance, however, of our ani- 
mal, the only individual of his species ever seen in 
. Europe, having been brought from the Island of Suma- 
tra instead of the continent of India, in which alone the 
Ursus Thibetanus had hitherto been discovered, is so 
remarkable, that we should have felt bound, had the 
means still remained open to us, to institute a close and 
severe comparison between the living specimen and the 
figure and description furnished by M. Duvaucel and 
M. Cuvier. As it is, we can only repeat the characters 
of the Thibet Bear as given by them, and refer to our 
figure for all the proof which we have it in our power to 
offer of its identity with the present animal. We trust 
that M. Temminck, or some other competent naturalist 
of the country to which the latter has been conveyed, 
will amply supply a deficiency which certainly would 
not have existed had we received timely notice of the 
intended transfer. 
M. Duvaucel enumerates three species of bears inha- 
biting India and the neighbouring islands. ‘The first of 
these is the Ursus labiatus, which was strangely mistaken 
on its first arrival in Europe, nearly forty years ago, for 
a Sloth, and received from the naturalists of that day 
the name of Bradypus pentadactylus, or ursinus, the 
Five-fingered, or Ursine, Sloth; an appellation which 
has been productive of no little confusion in nomen- 
clature, and is still frequently employed in menageries 
and exhibitions to distinguish the same animal, and 
sometimes even nearly related species. With the true 
Sloths it has nothing in common; and the only circum- 
