THE URSINE PIIALANGKR. 
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size brownish black; and those which he supposes to be the 
young of the year, have the fur of the upper parts of the 
body of a rusty brown tint; that on the cheeks, tho flanks, 
and the limbs, yellowish brown, and on the under parts yel¬ 
lowish. Adult specimens are said to measure about 22 or 20 
inches in length, from the nose to the root of the tail, and to 
have the tail about 20 or 21 inches in length; whilst the 
height of the adult animal varies from 10J inches to 10|. 
The dimensions of the specimen in the Zoological Society’s 
Museum are as follows:— 
Inches. Lines. 
From tip of nose to root of tail ... ... 20 0 
Tail .19 0 
From nose to ear . ... 3 5 
Ear . 0 8 
Tarsus, without including the nails -. 3 3 
An imperfect skull of P. ttrsina , in the British Museum, 
closely resembles the cranium figured in M. Temminck’s 
second Plate, and evidently belonged to an animal which was 
not quite adult. Besides the incisors, and ^ molars, which 
are evidently teeth of the permanent series, it has, in the 
upper jaw, a well-developed canine-like tooth about midway 
(or rather behind that point) between the incisors and molars, 
which has a double fang, and between this and the incisors is 
seen the point of the permanent canine, which is scarcely 
above the level of the hone : the root of this tooth is situated 
entirely in the superior maxillary hone, but, when fully 
developed, it would appear to belong to the intermaxillary 
teeth, being situated almost entirely in front of tho inter¬ 
maxillary suture. The canine is apparently in the same 
condition in the skull figured by M. Temminck, and hence 
this tooth, we may suppose, is the last one to make its appear 
ance in these animals. From the skull of a younger animal, 
