AILTTEIDa:. 



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large, oblong, longitudinal, with two large tubercles on the front 

 and two smaller in an oblique line on the hinder part of the crown. 

 Length of skuU 3J inches ; width of the brain-case 1^ inch, of the 

 zygomatic arch 2-f^ inches. 



De Saussure's figures represent the animal as if it were spotted, 

 and the tail with only a few broad rings. 



Fain. 6. AILURID^. 



Tail not longer than the body, subcylindrical, covered with long 

 bushy hairs, not prehensile ; soles of the feet covered with hair. 



Ailurina, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 707. 



AILURUS. 



AiluruB, F. Cuvier, Mamm. lAthogr. ; Hodgson, Joum. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 707. 



Head roundish, very hairy; nose acute, short; ears short, rounded, 

 hairy ; feet short; toes 5.5; claws acute ; taU elongate, tufted. 



Skull ovate ; nose short ; zygoma much spread out. Teeth 36 ; 

 grinders squarish, many-tubercled. Lower jaw arched, rounded, 

 very large. 



Lives on trees, but breeds in holes of rocks, living in pairs or small 

 families; feeds on fruit, roots, eggs, young birds and animals. Claws 

 completely retractile, half sheathed. 



" I can only report the frugivorous habits, gentle disposition, ur- 

 sine arm, feline paw, profoundly cross-hinged yet grinding jaw, and 

 purely triturative and almost ruminant molar of Ailurus ; anus, pe- 

 rineum, and prepuce entirely free from glands or pores ; scrotum 

 none ; tongue smooth ; pupU round ; feet enveloped in woolly socks, 

 with leporine completeness." — Hodgson. 



Ailurus Mgens. B.M. 



Ailurus fulgens, F. Cuv. Mamm. Lithogr. t. ; Hardw. Linn. Trans. 



XV. p. 161 ; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 157 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. 



B. M. p. 74 ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 707; Be Blainv. OsUogr. Subui-sus, 



t. 7 (skuU imperfect). 

 Ailurus ochraceus, Hodgson, Joum. As. Soc. Bengal, t. 52, 53 (skull). 



Hob. India, Nepal (called " Wah ") {Hodgson). ' 

 In the paper above referred to, Mr. Hodgson gives an interesting 

 account of the habits and afBnities of the Wah. It walks like the 

 Marten, climbs, and fights with aU the four legs at once, like the 

 Paradoxv/ri, and does not employ its fore feet, like the Kaccoon, 

 Coatis, or Bears, in eating. > 



Skull ovate ; forehead arched ; nose short ; brain-case ovate, 

 ventricose ; the zygomatic arches very large, expanded; crown bent 

 down behind. The palate concave in front between the canine 

 teeth, bent up behind in a line with the tubercular teeth, and sud- 



