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characters are those of Paradoxurus, but the auditory bulla is 
ankylosed into a single piece. 
lretictis\—Dentition: 73, ¢4, p+, m2; total 40. The pos- 
terior upper molar and the first lower premolar very often absent. 
Cheek-teeth generally small and rounded, with a distinct interval 
between them, but formed generally on the same pattern as 
Paradoxurus. Vertebre: C 7, D 14, L 5, 8 3, C 34. Body 
elongated. Head broad behind, with a small pointed face. 
Whiskers long and numerous. Ears small, rounded, but clothed 
with a pencil of long hairs. Eyes small. Limbs short. Soles and 
palms broad, entirely naked. Tail very long and prehensile ; 
thickly covered with long hair. Fur long and harsh. Cecum 
extremely small. But one species is known, 4. binturong, the 
Binturong, an inhabitant of Southern Asia from Nipal through the 
Malay Peninsula to the islands of Sumatra and Java. Although 
structurally agreeing closely with the Paradoxures, its tufted ears, 
long, coarse, and dark hair, and prehensile tail give it a very 
different external appearance. It may be regarded as a very 
aberrant Paradoxure, connected, so far as dental characters are 
concerned, with Paradoxurus by means of Arctogale. The bony 
palate also extends considerably behind the last molar, as in the 
latter. The Binturong is slow and cautious in its movements, 
chiefly if not entirely arboreal, and appears to feed on vegetable as 
well as animal substances, 
Nandinia? contains one species, .V. binetata, a somewhat 
aberrant Paradoxure, from West Africa. It is rather smaller than 
the true Paradoxures, with smaller and more pointed molar teeth, 
and no cecum. The wall of the hinder chamber of the auditory 
bulla remains through life unossified. 
The dentition appears to be of a more decidedly carnivorous 
type than in the other members of the section. 
Cynogale.2—This remarkable genus is regarded by Professor 
Mivart as representing a third section of the Virerrine , it contains 
one species, C. bennetti (described by S. Miiller under the name of 
Potamophilus barbatus), from Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay 
Peninsula. This is a curious Otter-like modification of the 
Viverrine type, having semi-aquatic habits, both swimming in the 
water and climbing trees, living upon fish, crustacea, small 
mammals, birds, and fruit. The number and general arrangement 
of its teeth are as in Paradoxurus, but the premolars are peculiarly 
elongated, compressed, pointed and recurved, somewhat as in the 
Seals, though the molars are tuberculated. The head is elongated, 
1 Temminck, Prospectus de Monographies des ammiferes, March 1824; 
Monographies, vol. i. p. xxi. (1827). 
* Gray, List of Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 54 (1843). 
5 Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 88. 
