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the whole of the tail and extremities. The sides of the head, 

 the neck, the throat, breast, and a broad patch on the top 

 of the head, which passes gradually, decreasing in breadth, 

 to the middle of the back, are white, with an obscure tint 

 of Isabella-yellow, of different degrees of intensity. This 

 colour, also, exists less distinctly in a longitudinal band, 

 along the lowest part of the abdomen. The tail is nearly 

 half the length of the body, is somewhat bushy, and termi- 

 nated with long bristly hairs. 



To these described, admitted species, we must add some 

 notice of two drawings, in our possession, of animals which 

 have been referred to this sub-division. In doing so, however, 

 here, and in many other places, in which we may think it ne- 

 cessary to insert figures from our collection, without having 

 had the opportunity of inspecting the subjects whence they 

 were taken, or examining the character of their dentition, by 

 which alone the species may be ascertained, we cannot but 

 express a hope that our motives will be properly appre- 

 ciated. Possessed of an extensive collection of many figures, 

 which cannot, by mere superficial detail, be referred with 

 certainty to particular groups, it seems, nevertheless, an 

 unnecessary fastidiousness, injurious, perhaps, in some mea- 

 sure, to the cause of science, to withhold them. Whatever, 

 therefore, is not said of them positively, must betaken con- 

 ditionally, and their location in particular, in the Cuvierian 

 system, is merely presumptive, and subject to investigation. 



The first of these is from an animal in M.Temminck's 

 celebrated museum, and is named by him, Gulo Larvatus, 

 the Masked Glutton. It is larger and longer than the Pole- 

 cat. Its colour is a mixture of olive-brown and gray, but 

 the end of the tail and the feet are black ; the ground-colour 

 of the head is black, but a white streak passes down the 

 forehead to the nose; there is also a whitish circle round each 

 eye, and a pale band passes round the throat from ear to ear. 



The second was in Mr. Bullock's late museum, and was 

 referred to this sub-genus. It may be called, conditionally? 



