THE THIBET BEAR. 13L 
stance which can at all account for the blunder, consists 
in the accidental deficiency of the incisor teeth in the 
animal first examined ; a deficiency, which, according to 
the strict principles of the artificial system then adopted, 
was alone sufficient to convert a Bear into a Sloth. The 
second is the Ursus Malayanus, the Malay Bear, admi- 
rably illustrated, both with regard to character and 
habits, by the late lamented Sir Stamford Raffles in the 
thirteenth volume of the Linnean Transactions. Another 
species, intimately connected with this, and unknown to 
M. Duvaucel, will form the subject of the following 
article. In the present we must confine ourselves to his 
third form, the Thibet Bear, which, according to his 
observations, made on the living animal, is distinguished 
by the following characteristics. 
In size it is intermediate between the two other species 
which he describes. Its most remarkable distinction is 
derived from the thickness of its neck and the flatness 
of its head, its forehead forming almost a straight line 
with its muzzle. The latter is moderately thick and 
somewhat lengthened ; and the ears are very large. The 
body is compact, and the limbs heavy ; a conformation 
from which we might be led to infer great muscular 
strength, together with a capacity for climbing trees and 
performing ‘other feats of a similar description, were it 
not for the comparative weakness of the claws, which are 
scarcely more than half as long as those of the other 
Indian bears. Like the latter, its colour is invariably of 
a uniform glossy jet-black, except on the lower lip, 
which is white; as is also a patch occupying the front 
of the neck, and in shape like a Y, the two upper limbs 
of which pass in front of the shoulders, while the lower 
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