URSUS MALAYANUS. 
Ord. III 1 ?* Carnasseers, Cuvier. 3^ Famille. Les Carnivores. V* Tribu, 
Plantigrades. 
Ord. III. Fer^e, Linn. Syst. 
Ord. XII. Falcexata, IHiger. Fam. 34, Plantigrada. 
URSUS, Linn. Cm. Geoffr. Illig. &c. 
Denies Primores utrinque sex, inferiorum secundus exterior basi crassior, interior. 
Laniarii distinct! primoribus longiores, eonici. Molares obducti supra utrin- 
secus sex : primus dimotus minutus, secundus minutus deciduus, reliqui tritores 
tuberculati : tertius parvus, quartus triangularis, quintus subquadratus, postre- 
mus maximus oblongus longitudinalis ; infra utrinsecus quinque: primus 
dimotus laniario proximus, reliqui tritores tuberculati: secundus unitubercu- 
latus, tertius et quartus oblongi, postremus quarto minor subquadratus. 
Rostrum productum. Nasus prominulus, rhinario lato obtuso. Lingua lsevis. 
Auricula mediocres rotundatae. 
Corpus villosum codario pilis intermisto. Cauda abrupta. Mamma aperta?, quatuor 
pectorales, duo ventrales. FoUicidus supra anum nullus. 
Pedes distincti ambulatorii plantigradi pentadactyli fissi. Plantm denudatae callosa?. 
Ungues: falculse acuta?. UUger. 
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Ursus ater, pilis brevibus rigidis, rostro ferrugineo, pectore macula semilunari alba. 
Bruang, of the Malays. 
Ursus malayanus, Sir T. S, Raffles's Cat of a ZooL Coll. made in Sumatra. Trans. 
Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 254. 
IN the figure which illustrates this article, the Ursus malayanus is carefully 
represented from a specimen contained in the Museum of the Honourable East 
India Company. This was forwarded to England by Sir Stamford Raffles in the 
