CARNIVORA. 
The figure is from a stuffed specimen presented 
by Lady Banks to the British Museum. This speci- 
men has not the skull, but Major Smith thinks, from 
examining the short face, the broad, dog-like nose, 
and the make of the claws, that this animal will, 
ultimately, range more nearly with the genus gulo 
than with ursus. 
THE THICK-LIPPED BEAR. 
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l’ours aux grandes levres. Desmarest. 
Ursus Lahiatus. Blainville. 
Frochilus Ursinus, Illiger. 
Ursus Tardigradus. Hamilton Smith. 
Brady pus Ursinus, Pennant and Shaw. 
Multiplicity of synonyms is certainly to be avoided 
in zoology as much as possible ; but it would be 
highly improper to retain the English name given to 
this animal by its first describers, who placed it, 
erroneously, with the sloths. As we have not a 
better figure of it than is given in Mr. Pennant and 
Dr. Shaw’s work, we shall merely, by favour of 
Major Smith, delineate the skull and teeth of the 
identical animal, from which Shaw and Pennant gave 
