This animal was brought from the interior parts of 
Bengal, and is now fomewhat more than four years old. 
When firft taken, it is faid to have been about the fize 
of a raccoon, and is reported to have fometimes barked 
in the manner of a dog. Its voice however at prefent 
is rather a fort of ftiort, abrupt roar, which it emits 
when much difturbed or irritated. It is gentle and 
good-natured : feeds chiefly on vegetable fubftances 
and milk ; and is fond of apples, and does not wil¬ 
lingly eat animal food, except of a very tender nature, ' 
as marrow, which it readily fucks from a bone prcfent- 
ed to it. It is alfo delighted with honey, fugar, and 
other fweets. Its motions are not as in others of this 
genus, flow and languid, but moderately lively, and it 
appears to have an habit of turning itfclf round and 
round every now and then, as if for amufement, in the 
manner of a dog when lying’down to fleep. It is faid 
to have a propenfity to burrowing under ground and 
that it was at firft dug out of its retreat by thofe who 
dilcovered it. 
The figure here given is copied from a drawing by 
Mr. Cattqn, an artift who has been peculiarly happy 
in exprefling the appearance of the animal. 
In the additional plate is reprefented a view' of the 
head in a ringent ftate ; in order to fhe\y not only the 
form and dilpofition of the teeth, but alfo in fome mea- 
fure the Angular flexibility of the upper part of the 
fnout, as if furnifhed with a joint or internal cartilage. 
