This animal was brought from the interior parts of 

 Bengal, and is now fomewhat more than four years old. 

 When firft taken, it is faid to have been about the fize 

 of a raccoon, and is reported to have fometimes barked 

 in the manner of a dog. Its voice however at prefent 

 is rather a fort of fhort, abrupt roar, which it emits 

 when much difturbed or irritated. It is gentle and 

 good-natured : feeds chiefly on vegetable fubftances 

 and milk ; and is fond of apples, and does not wil- 

 lingly eat animal food, except of a very tender nature, 

 as marrow, which it readily fucks from a bone prefent- 

 ed to it. It is alfo delighted with honey, fugar, and 

 other fweets. Its motions are not as in others of this 

 genus, flow and languid, but moderately lively, and it 

 appears to have an habit of turning itfelf round and 

 round every now and then, as if for amufement, in the 

 manner of a dog when lying down to fleep. It is faid 

 to have a propensity to burrowing under ground ; and 

 that it was at firft dug out of its retreat by thofe who 

 dilcovered it. 



The figure here given is copied from a drawing by 

 Mr. Cattqn, anartift who has been peculiarly happy 

 in exprelling the appearance of the animal. 



In the additional plate is reprefented a view of the 

 head in a ringent ftate ; in order to {hew not only the 

 form and difpofition of the teeth, but alfo in fome mea- 

 fure the lingular flexibility of the upper part of the 

 fnout, as if furnifhed with a joint or internal cartilage. 



