URSINE SLOTH. 
Bradypus Ursmus. B. niger hirsuthsimus, naso elongato nudo, pe- 
dihus pentadactylis. 
Black Sloth, with very long shaggy hair, lengthened snout, and 
five-toed feet. 
Ursine Bradypus, or Ursiform Sloth, 'Naturalist's Miscellany^ 
nml. I. pi. 5^. 
Ursiform Sloth. Pennant ^adr, z, p. 243.//. 92. 
Petre Bear. Catton^s Figures of Animals. 
This, which is by far the largest species of 
Sloth, is a native of India, and has been but lately 
introduced to the knowledge of European natu- 
ralists. It was brought from the neighbourhood 
of Patna in Bengal. This animal has, at first 
sight, so much of the general aspect of a bear, that 
it has actually been considered as such by some 
obsen^ers ; but it is no otherwise related to the 
Bear than by its size and habit, or mere exterior 
outline. This species I first examined with accu- 
racy in company with Mr. Pennant, and with 
him collated its characters with those of the 
Sloths. I described it in the second volume of 
the Naturalists Miscellany; and Mr. Pennant af- 
terwards introduced it into the last edition of his 
History of Quadrupeds. An excellent figure had 
some time before been published by an ingenious 
artist, which has been repeated both in the Na- 
turalist's Miscellany, and in the History of Quad- 
rupeds ; and is, on account of its superior accu- 
racy, again copied in the present work. It ex- 
presses, in a peculiarly striking and just manner, 
