LECTURE 11. 67 



long shaggy hair; a lengthened, naked, and flexible 

 snout; five excessively strong, curved claws on the 

 fore-feet, and five much smaller, and of a rounder 

 shape, on the hind feet ; the tail and ears very short. 

 Its motions were not peculiarly languid, as in the 

 Sloths, but moderately lively: its manners were 

 gentle, and it fed on vegetable substances and 

 milk. I forbear any longer description of the ani- 

 mal, and must refer those who wish for more par- 

 ticular information, to the description given in the 

 Naturalist's Miscellany, and in last Edition of Mr. 

 Pennant's Quadrupeds; but I have now to observe 

 that in consequence of information received on 

 this subject from an ingenious naturalist lately 

 arrived from India, and who has had opportunities 

 of examining the animal in its native regions, it 

 ought really to be referred to the genus Ursus or 

 Bear, and may therefore not improperly be named 

 Ursus Bengalensis or the Bengal Bear*. 



To the genus Bradypus or Sloth is allied, ac- 

 cording to the ingenious Cuvier, the celebrated 



* In the Leverian Museum, the impending dispersion of which 

 must be considered as an unspeakable disadvantage to the study of 

 Natural History in this Country, may be seen a very fine specimen _ 

 of this remarkable animal. 



