480 Anatomy of Ailurus, Porcula, and Stylocerus. [Nov. 



remarkable character of Ailurus associating it, quoad hoc, with the 

 Marsupials. Blumenbach (Man : pp. 46 and 53) and after him all 

 others have noticed the length of the humerus and femur as a special 

 character of the Plantigrades, and particularly of Ursus, their type. 

 Quoad locomotive organs, Ailurus is very decidedly framed on the plan- 

 tigrade model. Nor will it fail to be remarked how decidedly the small 

 feeble processes of the cervical vertebrse in Ailurus sunder it from the 

 Carnivora par excellence. Yet Ailurus has their talons and even their 

 nutritive viscera, whilst its masticatory organs are of a diametrically 

 opposite character. Such is the senigma we are contemplating, which, 

 however, may be thus far explained that if width of gut be allowed to be 

 equivalent to* length, the extreme breadth of the intestines of Ailurus 

 will bring them into harmonious correspondence with its triturant den- 

 tition. And we may always rest assured that there are no real anoma- 

 lies in nature, how surprising soever, and at first not wholly intelligible 

 to us that rich variety of means by which the same end is accomplished 

 without violation of a given model of organization. But the state of 

 my health warns me not to prolong these comparative remarks, which 

 will be better made by others. I proceed therefore to my next subject, 

 the Pigmy Hog of the Saul forest, an apparent second species of which 

 form I have recently discovered in the Sus-Papuensisf of New Zealand. 

 Since my account of that most rare and interesting animal, the Pigmy 

 Hog, was submitted to the Society, I have been so fortunate as to obtain 

 another and complete specimen of an old male. He was sent to me 

 alive from the Saul forest, but died on his way up, and though the en- 

 trails thus became considerably corrupted before the examination took 

 place, there was no destruction of parts, nor any thing to impede a just 

 appreciation of the structure of the soft as well as hard anatomy. To 

 enable me the better to appreciate the structure and affinities of the 

 Pigmy Hog, I procured and dissected at the same time a sample of the 

 ordinary domestic hog of this place, which is native to the Tarai though 

 imported largely into the mountains, to satisfy the appetites of the lazy 

 and carnivorous mountaineers. 



Porcula Salvania. Soft Anatomy. A fine mature male. Length 



* Blum. Man. p. 112. In the mature Ailurus the width of the intestines is one 

 inch. 



f Voyage de la Coquille, as quoted in the Penny Magazine, voce Sus. 



