URSUS MALAYANUS. 



Ord. III°^ Carnassiers, Cuvier. 3"^ Famille. Les Carnivores, I't Tribu, 



Plantigrades. 

 Ord. III. Fer^, Linn. Syst. 

 Ord. XII. Falculata, Illiger. Fam. 34, Plantigrada. 



URSUS, lAnn. Cuv. Geoffr. lUig. &c. 



Denies Primores utrinque sex, ihferiorum secundus exterior basi crassior, interior. 

 Laniarii distincti primoribus longiores, conici. Molares obducti supra utrin- 

 secus sex : primus dimotus minutus, secundus minutus deciduus, reliqui tritores 

 tubereulati : tertius parvus, quartus triangularis, quintus subquadratus, postre- 

 mus maximus oblongus longitudinalis ; infra utrinsecus quinque : primus 

 dimotus laniario proximus, reliqui tritores tubereulati: secundus unitubercu- 

 latus, tertius et quartus oblongi, postremus quarto minor subquadratus. 



Rostrum productum. Nasus prominulus, rhinario lato obtuso. Lingua leevis. 

 AuriculcB mediocres rotundatas. 



Corpus villosum codario pUis intermisto. Cauda abrupta. Mammce apertse, quatuor 

 pectorales, duo ventrales. FoUiculus supra anum nuUus. 



Pedes distincti ambulatorii plantigradi pentadactyli fissi. Plantce denudatee callosse. 

 Ungues: falculse acutse. Illiger. 



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Ursus ater, pilis brevibus rigidis, rostro feiTugineo, pectore macula semilunar! alba. 

 Bruang, of the Malays. 



Ursus malayanus. Sir T. S. Raffles' s Cat. of a Zool. Coll. made in Sumatra. Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 254. 



In the figure which illustrates this article, the Ursus malayanus is carefully 

 represented from a specimen contained in the Museum of the Honourable East 

 India Company. This was forwarded to England by Sir Stamford Raffles in the 



