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know little respecting them, excepting those of my second 

 Bear, which has at least three false molars. It is probable 

 that the third species, so different from the two others, has 

 likewise some anomaly in this respect, a fact of which I 

 cannot be assured until my specimens are dead." 



Thus far M. Duvaucel. We shall only add that the 

 Ursus Labiatus belongs to the mountainous parts of India 

 solely. It is said to retire into caverns and holes, which it 

 excavates by means of its long claws, and to feed principally 

 on white ants, fruits, and honey ; but as little of its habits 

 are known with any certainty, it may rationally be pre- 

 sumed, on viewing the teeth, that it is as carnivorous as 

 Bears in general. 



A disgusting story in the Oriental Field Sports, Major 

 Smith is inclined to refer to this species, of a poor Indian 

 who had his hands and arms literally ground into a pulp 

 by the teeth of a Bear. If so, this would be the Baloo, a 

 name generally given to the Ursus Malayanus. The pre- 

 sence of the mark on the breast, which we have mentioned, 

 may strengthen this supposition. 



The existence of the Bear in Africa, is not so incontesta- 

 ble as that of the Asiatic Bear. Pliny having found in the 

 Roman Annals, that under the consulship of Piso and Mes- 

 sala, sixty-one years before Jesus Christ, Domitius iEno- 

 barbus exhibited in the circus a hundred Numidian Bears, 

 led by as many negro hunters, quotes the fact with much 

 surprise. " I am astonished," says he, " at this epithet 

 Numidian, for it is certain that Africa produces no Bears." 

 Ursinus, Lipsius, and Vossius have imagined that by this 

 word the annalist meant Lions, as the Elephant was at first 

 called the Lucanian Ox ; and they have cited medals of this 

 same iEnobarbus, the reverse of which represents a man 

 combating with a Lion. But it seems perfectly incredible 

 that the Romans, who, according to the testimony of Pliny 

 himself, had seen such numerous troops of Lions, could 



