68 THE POLAR JJKAR. 



Bears of Europe. 



1. The Common or Brown Bear; Ursus Arctos, Linn. 



2. The Pyrenean Bear, or Bear of the Asturias; Ursus 



pyrenceus, F. Cuv. ? 



3. The Norwegian Bear ; Ursus norvegicus, F. Cuv. ? 



Bears of Asia. 



4. The Siberian Bear ; Ursus collaris, F. Cuv. ? 



5. The Labiated Bear ; Ursus labiatus, Blainville. 



6. The Malayan Bear ; Ursus malayanus, Raffles. 



7. The Thibetan Bear ; Ursus thibetanus, Cuv. 



8. The Bornean Bear ; Ursus eurispylus, Horslield. 



9. The Isabelline Bear ; Ursus isabellinus, Horsfield. 



10. The Syrian Bear # ; Ursus syriacus, Hemprich. 



Bears of Africa. 



11. The Abyssinian Bear; Ursus habessinicus, Hemprich.? 



Bears of America. 



12. The Spectacled Bear; Ursus ornatus, F. Cuv. 



13. The Grisly Bear; Ursus fer ox, Lewis and Clarke. 



14. The Black Bear ; Ursus americanus, Pallas. 



15. The Polar Bear; Ursus maritimus, Pallas. 



Those of the above species which are denoted by a mark 

 of interrogation require additional investigation and further 

 opportunities of comparison, before they can be admitted as 

 species unquestionably distinct. Numbers 2, 3, and 4, may 

 ultimately be found to be varieties only of the common Euro- 

 pean Brown Bear. 



Numbers 5 to 9 have been grouped together under the 

 subgeneric titles Prochitus and Helarctos, or Sun-bears, 

 having some characteristics in common, in which they differ 

 from the rest of the genus. The species 11 has only been 

 seen in its wild state, and has not yet been scientifically de- 

 scribed : it is inserted here chiefly on account of its geogra- 

 phical position, being the only species of bear recorded with 

 any degree of authenticity as inhabiting the continent of 

 Africa. 



As there is no genus of carnivorous quadrupeds in which 

 the species present so few deviations from the common 

 type, so are there none in which the differences of size are 



* This, in all probability, was the species of bear which, as an instrument 

 of Divine displeasure, tore the children that on Mount Bethel scoffed at the 

 Prophet Elisha: see 2nd Kings, ii. 23, 24. 



