102 MAMMALS

while tearing to pieces a nest of wild bees from a
hollow tree.

The American black bear is all black except his
muzzle, which is tan incolour. The Himalayan black
bear has a white chevron on his chest ; the Japanese
bear is similarly, but less distinctly, marked ; the
Malayan bear has the mark even fainter and less
definite in shape. This last bear is found as far east
as Borneo. In the Andes there is a bear (U. ornatus)
with white rings round his eyes, from which he has
obtained the name of the spectacled bear.

The Procyonide comprise two genera—4lurus,
whose only living representative is the small, bear-
like panda found in Northern India, although an ex-
tinct species has been unearthed from the Red Crag
of Suffolk ; and Procyon, to which belong the Ameri-
. can raccoons, cacomistles, and coatis, and the pre-
hensile-tailed kinkajou. The MMustelide are very
widely distributed. They have all but one pair of
molars in the upper jaw, and are allied in one diréc-
tion to the bears and in the other to thecivets. Like
the insectivores, they are a somewhat miscellaneous
family, and include such widely different looking
animals as the martens, polecats and weasels, the
mink, the wolverene, the skunks, the badgers, and
the otters.

The next great group is that of the marine car-.
nivores, or Pzunzpedia, in which the upper parts of
the limbs are included within the general contour of
the body, and the digits, five in number, are webbed,
the first and fifth toes of the hind foot being, as a
rule, stouter and longer than the rest. There are