28 APPENDIX. 



of binomial names to match, in which Rafinesque, as usual, caps the 

 climax in the American Monthly Magazine (1817, p. 46). 



The Catamount of Morse's Geography, referred to, was, no doubt, a 

 Panther. The Brown Tiger of Pike was a large, dark- colored specimen 

 of the same, such as are often encountered in the well-watered regions 

 of the far west. 



Page 297. 

 "Striated Weasel." 



As already implied in a previous note, it is here evident that Ord 

 mistook Pennant's description of the Striated Weasel to apply to the 

 common Skunk. It is not likely that the Little Striped Skunk of the 

 Gulf States had ever come under Ord's notice. 



Page 299. 

 "Grizzly Bear." 



Because of the endless controversy among zoologists respecting the 

 status of the black, brown and grizzly Bears of America and their affin- 

 ities with Ursus arctos, this original description and naming of Ursus 

 horribilis has done more than anything else to keep the name of Ord 

 prominently in scientific notice. This interest has been increased by the 

 absolute lack of other references to Ord's description than the synony- 

 matic ones made to it by Say, Godman and Baird. 



Owing to the disappearance of the only known copy of Guthrie from 

 which Baird took his references, it has been impossible to improve upon 

 them until now. It may be disappointing to many, who now for the 

 first time scan the description, to find that Ord in this, as in similar cases, 

 makes no personal deductions or diagnosis of the case, as presented by 

 Brackenridge, which might absolutely fix the type and type locality of 

 this form as contrasted with others in the United States nearly related to 

 it. Ord's quotations being wholly taken from Brackenridge's ac- 

 count, (in which are included the Lewis and Clark quotations made 

 by Ord, their sequence only being changed), we may justly define the 

 typical habitat of horribilis to be western North Dakota, eastern Mon- 

 tana and north-eastern Wyoming. Brackenridge's description, apart 

 from its Lewis and Clark quotations, is unquestionably taken from 

 hearsay rather than personal experience and we must therefore base 

 conclusions mainly on Lewis and Clark's narrative of the Bears in this 

 region. The type specimen of hdrribilis is the "brown bear" (Coues' 1893 

 ed. L- & C., pp. 297, 298.) whose measurements Brackenridge and Ord 

 copied from Lewis & Clark. This specimen is described as the largest 

 they had seen up to that time ; it was killed May 5, 1805, near old 

 Fort Charles at the mouth of Little Dry or Lackwater Creek, flowing 

 into the Missouri, in Dawson County, north-eastern Montana. 



In a recent paper "On the Character and Relationships of Ursus cinna- 



