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ferrug-ineous colour. It stands lower, but is a stouter and 

 better proportioned animal than the Common Bear*." 



When taken young, they become very tame. One lived 

 for two years in Sir T. S. Raffles' possession, and that 

 gentleman adds, " He was brought up in the nursery with 

 the children, and when admitted to my table, as was fre- 

 quently the case, gave a proof of his taste, by refusing to eat 

 any fruit but mangosteens, or to drink any wine but cham- 

 pagne. The only time I knew him to be out of humour, 

 was on an occasion when no champagne was forth-coming. 

 He was naturally of a playful and affectionate disposition, 

 and it was never found necessary to chain or chastise him. 

 It was usual for this Bear, the Cat, the Dog, and a small 

 blue Mountain-Bird, or Lory of New Holland, to meet to- 

 gether, and eat out of the same dish. His favourite play- 

 fellow was the Dog, whose teasing and worrying was always 

 borne, and returned with the utmost good-humour and 

 playfulness. As he grew up, he became a very powerful 

 animal ; and in his rambles in the garden, he would lay hold 

 of the largest plantains, the stems of which he could 

 scarcely embrace, and tear them up by the roots." 



A stuffed specimen of this animal was presented, by 

 Lady Banks, to the British Museum. 



A fine specimen of this species is now in possession of 

 Mr. Cops, at the Tower, which we have engraved, from a 

 drawing by Mr. T. Landseer. It came from Borneo. 



The head of this individual is remarkably thick, much 

 more so than in the other species of Bears ; the neck, also, is 

 very short and thick, so that the head, neck, and body alto- 

 gether, are nearly cylindrical. The colour of the muzzle is 

 dirty-yellow. The eyes extremely small, have the iris ap- 

 proaching a pale-lilac colour, with a very small circular 

 black pupil. The snout, which is truncated, is terminated 

 by a moveable fleshy elongation, extending beyond the 



* Linnfean Trans, vol. xii. p. 1. 



