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Stockh. 1843, p. 704 ; Isis, 1845, s. 459) some observations concerning the 

 changes which occur in the symphisis pubis of the Hedgehog during preg- 

 nancy and parturition. 



CARNIVORA. 



URSINA. Bazin has, in the ' Actcs de la Soc. Linn, de 

 Bordeaux/ xiii, p. 143, avec fig., given an account of an 

 Albino variety of the Ursus arctos, from the Pyrenees. 



A female was killed, 1841, in the mountains about Bagneres de Luchon, 

 being 1 m. 27 in length, of a yellowish white or creamy colour, dark under 

 the neck and on the lower jar, the hue extending from thence to the anterior 

 part of the shoulders and upon the checks, and fading away at the eyes. 

 External and anterior side of the arm and fore-arm yellow ; hind legs 

 internally almost isabel, or cream-coloured, externally dirty white; belly 

 studded with several irregular spots of a tolerably dark yellowish white hue ; 

 eyes red, claws yellowish white. 



Along with the above we have Professor Owen (Brit. Fossil Mammalia, 

 p. 77) and Pictet (Palseontologie, 1, p. 140) expressing themselves even 

 now against Blainville's view of Ursus arctos being only an abortive or arrested 

 descendant of K spelaus. The Professor would appear likewise to be unac- 

 quainted with my works upon the Cave-bears and upon the Muggendorfiau 

 Cave-animals generally, although they have been inserted in this Archive 

 and in the ' Isis. 3 



Concerning the Bears that occur upon the Japanese islands, Tcmminck 

 has, in the ' Fauna Japonica,' p. 29, communicated up to the present time 

 more precise information. He reckons 3 species. (1) Ursus fer ox, dark 

 brown, occasionally blackish, in some individuals the colour being brighter 

 upon the head and fore-quarters, in others interrupted by a yellowish band 

 proceeding from the shoulders, as in the Siberian Bears with a neck- 

 collar ; another variety is more of a fallow or gray tint. Hitherto we 

 have obtained only skins of the above, without the skull and foot-bones, so 

 that the determination of the species still does not appear to me quite 

 secure ; one of these skins had a length of about eight feet. In the moun- 

 tainous districts of the islands Jozo and Karafto, it attacks horses, deer 

 and even man ; but is frequently too kept in confinement, in order to fatten 

 and then cat it. (2) U. tibetanus, frequently occurs in the mountainous 

 parts of the Japanese islands, and usually subsists upon vegetable sub- 

 stances ; Siebold saw also an Albino of this species. (3) U. maritimm : in 

 the year 1690 several Polar or Ice bears (?) arc said to have been seen upon 



