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Treatment in sickness. 



Nothing particular is known in respect to their ailments in 

 captivity. 



Observations on the habits of a Kjnkajou. 



The single specimen, exhibited in the garden, slept much during 

 the day, but was generally active at the approach of night. It was very 

 tame, and never showed any inclination to stray when let out of a 

 morning. Its movements on the ground were rather awkward, but it 

 was an expert climber. When enraged it drew back and hissed, and 

 was very quick in striking with its f orepaws. 



(104) THE PANDA OR CAT-BEAR. 

 (.3ELUEUS FULGENS, F. Cuv.) 



Description. — About the size of a large cat, the head round, and the 

 face short and very broad ; limbs short and stout, tail long and thick : 

 very prettily coloured, being yellowish red on the back, head and tail, 

 the latter ringed and black tipped : the upper limbs and the lower parts 

 of the sides generally much darker than the back ; abdomen brownish. 

 Face and lower lips white : a stripe of dark brown or red runs down 

 from above the eye to the corner of the mouth ; it may be indistinct or 

 altogether wanting. Ears white inside and at the margin outside, rest 

 of the outside black. Feet and the pads covered with hair, which 

 become thin and worn-out in captivity. The dimensions of a full-grown 

 cat-bear are about 24 inches, tail 17. 



Hab. — South-Eastern Himalayas at elevations from 7,000 to 8,000 

 feet. As far as known its western limit is Nepal, but the eastern limit 

 extends through the mountain ranges north of Assam to Yunan, where, 

 in the higher mountain ranges to the east, it has, according to Anderson 

 (Anatomical and Zoological Researches), a greater numerical develop- 

 ment than in the Himalayas. 



Length of life in captivity. 



The maximum period of a cat-bear's life in the garden has been 

 only about twenty months. Considering the elevation at which these 

 animals live, it is not expected that they should thrive longer in Lower 

 Bengal. 



Treatment in health. 



Housing. — The only efficient method of keeping a cat-bear alive 

 and in health in a climate so strange to it as that of Calcutta, is to allow 

 it as much liberty as possible, by which means the animal is enabled not 

 only to take plenty of exercise, but to find much of its own food also, 

 and, as it is easily tamed, this can be accomplished without much diffi- 

 culty. The best plan is to locate a new arrival in a large airy cage 

 under the shade of a tree, or better still under a bamboo clump. Here 

 it should be fed and attended until it becomes thoroughly accustomed to 



