GULO ORIENTAL IS. 
Ord. IIP?* Carnassiers, Cuvier. 
3"?* Famille. Les Carnivores. 
1*! Tribu, Plantigrades. 
Ord. III. Fer,e, Linn. Syst. 
Ord. XII. Falculata, IUiger. 
Fam. 34, Plantigrada. 
GULO, Storr. Cuv. Illig. 
Mustela, Linn. 
Ursus, Linn. GmeL 
Meles, Bodd. Desm. 
Mel l ivor a, Storr. 
Char. Gms.—Dentium formula; Primores % Laniarii \ Molares g seu ^ sea g=£ 
Primores utrinque 6, supra externus utrinsecus major, infra secundus exteriore inte- 
rior. Laniarii iongU conici, acuti. Molares supra utrinsecus 5, (aliis4), penultimus 
maximus, gradu laterali antico unituberculato auctns; postremus tritorius, trans- 
versa : infra ti, (aliis 5), penultimus maximus medio bicuspidatus antice gradu 
acuto postice margine tritorio auctus ; postremus parvus tritorius. 
Rostrum acutum. Rkinarium prominulum. Lingua aliis Levis aliis scabra. A uri- 
cula breves. 
Corpus pilosum. Cauda mediocris aut brevis, laxa. 
Pedes plantigradi, pentadactyli. Pktnta*. muhe. Ungues: falculae, acutse, eompressa? 
fossorise. 
Gulo fuscus, corpore elongato, cauda mediocri, gutture pectore genis maculaque 
verticis ad dorsum longitudinaliter extensa flavicantibus. 
Nyentel% of the Javanese. 
THE various species of Gulo which have hitherto been discovered, inhabit 
the northern countries of both Continents, the equinoctial and temperate regions of 
America, and in Africa, Guinea and the Cape of Good Hope. In arranging 
in this genus an animal foimd in a country remote from all these, where its 
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