ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
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blackish brown j chest yellowish grey ; tail short, with black rings and a 
black tip. — Santa Fe de Bogota. 
Tribe 3. Procyonina, with the genus Procyon, — P. cancrivora being the 
.type of a subgenus, Euprocyon. 
Section II. Dendropoda. The Cat-footed Bears. Toes short, arched ; 
claws retractile. 
Tribe 4. Cereoleptina {Cercoleptes), 
Tribe 6. Ailurina {Ailunis^. 
Ursus. Dr. Sclater reports on the different Japanese Bears living in the 
Zoological Gardens in the Begent’s Park. One is probably XI. arctos^ var. 
hei'ingensis (Middend.), the other XJ. japonicus (Schleg.), Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1864, p. 374. 
X Mr. Swinhoe regards the Bear of the Island of Formosa as an undescribed 
animal, for which he proposes the name of XJ. formosanus, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1864, p. 380. 
Ursus maritimus. Hr. Malmgren makes some remarks on its habits, 
Wiegm. Arch, 1864, p. 64. (CEfvers. Svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. Forhandl. 1864, 
p. 128.) 
Ursus aretos is rare in Finmark, according to Hr. Malmgren, Wiegm. Arch. 
1864, p. 66, 
Males taxus. An instance of a female Badger producing young after being 
fifteen months (!) in solitary confinement is recorded in the ‘ Zoologist,’ 1864, 
p. 9277. 
PlIOCID^. 
Dr. Gray (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1864, p. 27) has received a Seal 
from the west coast of North America which proves to be uii- 
described, and the type of a distinct ’ genus ; he names it 
Halicyon richardii* On this occasion the author has re- 
examined the skulls of the species of his second subfamily of 
Phociddn — Phocmay and has found that the form of the lower jaw 
affords a very good character for the distinction and subdivision 
of the species. He modifies the arrangement proposed in his 
Catal. Seals, p. 20, thus — 
1. Branches of lower jaw diverging j the lower edge of the lower jaw 
rounded, simple; palate angularly arched behind ; angle of lower jaw blunt, 
sloping behind. Callocephalus, type C. vitulinus. 
2. Branches of lower jaw diverging; lower edge of lower jaw dilated on 
the inner side. 
* Palate angularly notched behind ; angle of lower jaw blunt, sloping be- 
hind. Payomys, type P. fwtuhts ; P. nummularis belongs, perhaps, to this 
group. 
** Palate truncated behind ; angle of lower jaw acute, erect behind, with 
a notch above the basal tubercle. Pagophilus, type P. grwnlandieus. 
3. Branches of lower jaw arched on the side and wide apart ; lower 
edge produced on the inner side behind the symphysis ; palate arched. 
* Tubercle on inner edge of front pari of lower jaw elongate, sharp-edged ; 
teeth moderate; angle of lower jaw simple, with a distinct notch above it. 
Jlalicyon, type II. richardii, sp. n. 
