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extremity of the lower jaw, but this elongation does 

 by no means appear to form a foliaceous appendage. Be- 

 tween the upper lip and the nostrils, there seems to be 

 a deep incision, in the form of a horse-shoe, within which 

 the nostrils are pierced ; the upper or thickest part of the 

 head measures about twenty-two inches vertically round ; 

 the length, from nose to tail, is nearly three feet. This 

 is a female. 



The patch on the throat is yellow, with a tinge of red, 

 with several irregular blackish spots. 



The hasty view that could be obtained of the teeth, when 

 the animal was occasionally induced to open its mouth, 

 was, however, perhaps sufficient to enable us to say, that the 

 system of dentition is ursine, and fully to evince that the 

 animal is not edentatous, though she is exhibited under 

 the name of the five-fingered Sloth. 



Whether the differences between this specimen and those 

 previously described, are merely individual, or whether 

 they constitute this a variety of Borneo, we cannot de- 

 termine. 



The Indian Bear, at the Tower, is very full of action, 

 though' its movements may be called slow and measured. 

 With all its muscular clumsiness, it appears to have a sort 

 of suppleness of joint, as it assumes various and very an- 

 tic postures. Its favourite position, however, appears to 

 be that represented in the plate, of sitting on its haunches, 

 and thrusting out its long, narrow tongue, to a very extra- 

 ordinary length. 



It will eat flesh and fruit, but is kept entirely on bread 

 and milk, eating about two pounds a day. 



The last of the living species of Bears which we shall 

 describe is the Ursus Labiatus, placed erroneously by^Pen- 

 nant and others among the Sloths, under the name of the 

 Ursine Sloth. Though multiplicity of sinonimes is as 

 much as possible to be avoided, in zoology, from the confu- 



