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The general colour of either sex is black, sprinkled on the body and 

 extremities with pale ferrugineous, produced by some of the hairs having 

 a part next to the point of that colour. In both sexes nearly all the hairs 

 of the head, face and throat are thus marked, which communicates to 

 these parts a whitish or greyish appearance. In the young of either 

 sex there is a faint trace of a white spot over the eyes. The long ear- 

 tufts are always black, the margin of the auricle being either white, or 

 pale rust- coloured. The tail is black, but the hairs of the anterior or 

 basal half, are whitish at the root, or in some uniformly of that colour. 

 The pupil is vertically contracted by the influence of light ; the iris is 

 of a beautiful Van Dyke brown. In its habits the Binturong is both arbo- 

 real and terrestrial, and nocturnal, sleeping till the sun is below the 

 horizon, when it displays great agility in searching for smaller quadru- 

 peds, birds, fishes, earth-worms, insects and fruit. The howl is loud, 

 resembling that of some of the Malayan Paradoxuri. The young are 

 easily tamed, but the old animal retains its natural fierceness. Between 

 the anus and penis is situated a large pyriform gland, exceeding two 

 inches in length, partially divided by a deep naked fossa, commencing 

 from the latter organ. The gland secretes a light-brown oily fluid, of a 

 peculiar intense, but not fetid or sickening odour. In a young male, 

 measuring from the nose to the root of the tail, two feet three and five- 

 eighth inches, the tail two feet two and a half inches, the intestines were 

 of the following dimensions : 



Small Intestines, . . . . 7 feet 1 1 inches. 



Large ditto, . . . . . . 1 foot 10 inches. 



Csecum, . . . . . . ^ inch. 



The circumference of the small intestines about seven-eighth inches • 

 of the large but little more, but the rectum was thickened two inches 

 in circumference. 



The short csecum is crescent-shaped, or lengthened pyriform. The 

 stomach is remarkably lengthened cylindrical, the parietes much thick- 

 ened towards pylorus. Oesophagus enters close to fundus ventriculi, 

 in consequence of which there is but a slight difference between the 

 curvatures. 



Length along the greater curvature, . . 1 foot 2 inches. 

 „ smaller ,, ..!„!,, 



