GULO ORIENTALIS. 
range, as far as we know at present, is greatly circumscribed, I have endeavoured 
carefully to examine its characters. In this examination I have followed the princi- 
ples of classification detailed with great clearness by M. F. Cuvier in his excellent 
Memoir, in the 10th Volume of the Annales du Museum, &c. In this he very 
properly divides the grinders into false grinder*; fausses molaires; carnivorous teefh f 
carnassieres ; and tube rations teeth, tubcrculeuses. The first are small, pointed, and 
formed for cutting or tearing the food; they vary in number, from one to three or 
four hi each jaw ; the next to these, in both jaws, is the largest grinder, the carni- 
vorous tooth, consisting of several points, with an additional heel; to this follows in 
each jaw in most genera a single tuberculous tooth, having a nearly even surface, formed 
for trituration. In the third family of the Order of Caniassiers of Baron Cuvier, the 
carnivores, the grinders in general, assist in affording the means of elear generic 
distinctions. Our animal agrees in most points with the true Gluttons, as exempli- 
fied in the Plate which illustrates the Memoir of M. F. Cuvier, to which I have 
referred : it has five grinders in the upper, and six in the lower jaw. The three first 
in the upper, and the four first in the lower jaw, are lalse grinders; they increase 
successively in size, having comparatively a broad base, and a somewhat rounded 
obtuse point ; the carnivorous tooth in the upper jaw has tliree principal points, of 
which that on the exterior side forms an extended ridge ; here it also has, anteriorly, 
a very minute additional heel: in the lower jaw this tooth is long, and consists of 
two principal points in the middle ; anteriorly it further has one additional heel, and 
posteriorly it is continued into a rounded triturating ridge. The tuberculous tooth 
in the upper jaw is large, and placed transversely; in the lower jaw it is small. The 
front teeth in the upper jaw are very regularly disposed; the exterior tooth, on each 
side, exceeds the others slightly in breadth, but not in length : in the lower jaw 
these teeth are all of equal length, but the two exterior ones are broader ; the tooth 
next following them on each side, is removed somewhat interiorly from the general 
series, and the two intermediate teeth are smaller than these. The canine teeth in 
the upper jaw are rather long, and have an additional projection at the base, which 
I have not observed so distinctly in other animals of this Family ; in the canine tooth 
of the lower jaw this projection is still more considerable, and extends obliquely 
backward ; from this the tooth is suddenly curved upward and outward, so as to 
form an angle from the point in winch it is in contact with the front teeth. 
Our animal further agrees with the Gluttons in the structure of the feet, which 
are plantigrade, or formed for resting, in walking, the entire sole on the ground : 
the claws likewise have the character belonging to the different species of this genus ; 
they are long, horny, compressed, curved, and obtuse ; calculated more for digging 
the earth, than for seizing other animals ; a capacity which they appear to possess in a 
degree far inferior to Felis and Mu stela. The characters taken from the length of 
