ZOOLOGY. 



sparkling, and on the centre of the forehead, a circular 

 •white spot placed in the middle between the eyes. The 

 body covered with a long coarse bristly wool, the legs 

 and under-side of the body of a rich pleasing brown colour. 



There seems in this animal to be a general resemblance 

 to the Ursus or Bear species, and we much regret that 

 ■we had not an opportunity of a more minute exami- 

 nation into his form and qualities, which might have tended 

 to throw some light upon his natural history ; but by its 

 being shortly after the present sketch was taken, removed 

 from London, no opportunity of that kind has yet 

 occurred. 



It were much to be- wished, that a Society of Natur- 

 alists were established for the express purpose of inves- 

 tigating and promoting all new discoveries, in respect 

 particularly to quadrupeds, imported from distant and 

 unexplored countries, by whom artists might be employed 

 to draw and anatomize the various species as they occur, 

 and offering particular rewards for the most curious kinds, 

 or such as could be conveniently brought over the seas 

 alive ; such a subject would be highly interesting in the 

 extension of the knowledge of physic, and would form at 

 once a focus for the reception and dissemination of every 

 animal hitherto unknown. A National Menagerie, if con- 

 structed upon liberal and scientific principles, would un- 

 doubtedly meet with the patronage of the public, to whom 

 the expences of a trifling admission with money, would, 

 in a short time, more than reimburse the incidental or 

 annual charge of such an establishment. This would prove 

 a permanent foundation for encreasing knowledge, and in 

 its progress, might be found worthy of the British Nation, 

 aud an object even of Royal Patronage. 



