eiup. xvii.] 
MAMMALIA. 
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from Coban in Guatemala, in which country it has also been 
observed by Mr. Salvin. 
Fossil Procyonidce. — A species of Nasua has been found in the 
bone caves of Brazil, and a Procyon in the Pliocene or Post- 
pliocene deposits of Illinois and Carolina. 
Family 31.— iELURIDiE, (2 Genera, 2 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sob-regions. 
N EARCTIC 
SUB-REGIONS. 
PAL.EARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
4 
3 - 
The Panda (PFlurus fulgens), of the forest regions of the 
Eastern Himalayas and East Thibet, a small cat-like bear, has 
peculiarities of organization which render it necessary to place 
it in a family by itself. (Plate VII. vol. i. p. 331). An allied 
genus, JEluropus, a remarkable animal of larger size and in 
colour nearly all white, has recently been described by Professor 
Milne-Edwards, from the mountains of East Thibet ; so that the 
family may be said to inhabit the border lands of the Oriental 
and Palaearctic regions. These animals have their nearest allies 
in the coatis and bears 
Family 32. — UBSIDAL (5 Genera, or Sub-genera, 15 Species.) 
General Distribution, 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
NE ARCTIC 1 
Sob-regions. | 
Pal,® arctic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian I 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 1 
Sub- regions. | 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
1 
| i . a . 3 . 4 
1.2.3 .4 
1 .2 .3.4 
— 
The Bears have a tolerably wide distribution, although they 
are entirely absent from the Australian and Ethiopian, and almost 
so from the Neotropical region, one species only being found in 
the Andes of Peru and Chili. They comprise the following 
groups, some of which are doubtfully ranked as genera. 
Thalassarctos, the polar bear (1 species) inhabiting the Arctic 
regions ; Ursus, the true bears (12 species), which range over 
