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but indulge in a mixed diet, even the Polar Bear 
adding grass to its menu of seals and fishes when 
opportunity offers; we have two good specimens of 
the HimaLtavan Briack Bear (Ursus torguatus), an 
inhabitant of Northern India and China, and a 
vegetable feeder. The next family is represented by 
the Racoon (Procyon lotor),a common North American 
species found as far north as Alaska, and southward 
into Central America; it is strictly nocturnal, making 
its home in hollows of trees, whence it sallies forth to 
gratify its omnivorous appetite. A near relative to 
the Racoon is the CoaTI, or as it is often called, the 
Coati-Mundi, of which we have the Brown or White- 
nosed Coati (Vasua narica), found in Mexico and 
Central America; there are two species, both of which 
are abundant where found, gregarious and mainly 
arboreal, hunting their prey, which consists of lizards, 
birds, eggs, and fruit, in parties of eight to twenty. 
The next family is that of MusTEeLip&, to which belong 
the OrTerRs, the American Skunks; and the typical 
genus A/uste/a, represented bythe well-known MARTENS, 
PoLEcATsS, and WEASELS, all British, and all blood- 
thirsty little animals. The Martens, one species of 
which, A/ustela martio, the Pine Marten, of which a 
specimen is here shown, was frequent in this county 
when woodlands were more extensive, it is now rare 
in England, but still found in Northern Europe and 
Asia. : 
We must now pass over a whole sub-order, PINNI- 
PEDIA, the aquatic carnivora, consisting of the Eared 
Seals, Walrusses, and True Seals (some representatives 
of which will be found in the British section and in 
the Osteological Collection, but have no place here), 
and call attention to some few members of the order 
INSECTIVORA, consisting of the Hedgehogs, 
Shrews, Moles, etc., better represented in the British 
