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point, of the latter colour. Ears, tail, paws, and inner side of the ex- 

 tremities shining black. The somewhat woolly hairs of the abdomen 

 are faintly marked with ferrugineous, and are mixed with longer stiff 

 black hairs. As observed by Schinz, the mark on the breast is very 

 variable in its form. It may be compared to a crescent, assuming 

 according to the smaller or greater breadth of the limbs, the shape of 

 the letter U, of a horse- shoe, or a heart. In the living animal it is 

 of a pale rust, or orange colour, in some individuals with a few small 

 blackish spots, fading after death to a yellowish- white. A very old 

 male presented the following dentition : 



T . 6 _ . 1—1,-- 4. 4 (24-2) 

 Incis.— Canm. — Molar,^. ( ^ 



In a young female, three feet in length, the intestinal canal measured 

 fifteen feet. It had neither caecum nor valve to mark the transition. 

 She had ten grinders in either jaw, of which four were spurious, six true. 



Gen. — Arctictis, Temminck. 

 Arctictis Binturong, Fischer. 



Syn. — Viverra ? Binturong, Raffles. 



Paradoxurus albifrons, F. Cuvier. 



Ictides ater, F. Cuvier. 



Arctictis penicillata, Temminck. 



Ictides ater, Blainv. Calcutta Journ. of Nat. Hist.* 



" Unturong" of the Malays of the Peninsula. 

 Hab. — Malayan Peninsula, 



Tenasserim, Arracan, Assam, Bhotan, Nipal. 

 Java and Sumatra are quoted by M. Schinz, but neither Dr. Hors- 

 field, Sir S. Raffles, nor M. Temminck, (Discours Preliminaire, Faum 

 JaponicaJ mention the Binturong as inhabiting either of the two islands. 



* In the 3rd Vol. of Calcutta Journ. of Nat. Hist. p. 410, occurs the following 

 passage : "The Binturong was first discovered in Java, but the first notice of its existence 

 on the continent of India will be found in the second volume of this Journal, p. 457, 

 (sic!) "&c." Sir Stamford Raffles, who published the first account of this animal, dis- 

 tinctly states, that it was discovered at Malacca, (not Java, as erroneously stated,) bj 

 Major Farquhar, and Malacca is situated on the continent of India as well as Tenas- 

 serim. The fact of its inhabiting Bhotan, was according to Cuvier (Regne Animal,) first 

 made known by Duvaucel, and the author of the article ' k Ictides" in the Penny 

 Cyclopeedia, 1838, gives Mr. Hodgson's authority of the Binturong's inhabiting 

 Nipal, (Kachar, though they occasionally occur in the central region of Nipal.) 



