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ZOOLOGY. 



In 1874, Lieutenant Marshall obtained a skin of this bear, killed near 

 Pagosa Hot Springs, in Western Colorado. 



In the present state of our unfinished studies of the American Urshhr, 

 we are unwilling to express ourselves upon the nicer questions involved ; 

 but so far we can see we have in the United States two perfectly distinct 

 species, to which a third, the Barren Ground Bear, of Richardson, named 

 Ursus richardsoni, by one Mayne Reid, may require to be added. 



These two are the "Black Bear" (Ursus americanus') and the Grizzly, 

 the latter probably not specifically separable from the U. arctos of Europe. 

 Both occur under almost every variation in color, but preserve their specific 

 characters throughout. 



The "Cinnamon Bear" of authors is a variety of U. americanus; but 

 the " Cinnamon " Bear of frontiersmen and mountaineers refers to some of 

 the lighter or browner varieties of the Grizzly. 



URSUS AMERICANUS, Tall. 



Black Bear. 



Var. AMERICANUS. 



Ursus americanus, PALLAS, Spic. Zool., xiv, 1780, C. BODD., Elcncb. Aniai., i, 1784, 

 79. GMEL., S.vst. Nat., i, 1788, 101. DESM., Mamra., i, 1820, 165. HAH- 

 LAN, Fn. Aiuer., 1825, 51. RICH., F. B.-A., i, 1829, 14. FiSCH , Syn., 1.^29, 

 143. GODM., Am. Nat. Hist,, i, 1831, 114. UEKAY, N. Y. Zool., i, 1S42, 

 24. AUD. & BACH., Q. N. A., iii, 1853, 187, pi. 141. BD., M. N. A., 1857, 

 225. 



Ursus qiger americanus, GKIFF., An. Kingcl., v, 1827, No. 318. 



Var. CINNAMOMEUS. 



Ursus americanus var. cinnamomum, AUD. &BACH., Q. N. A., iii, 1853, 125, pi. 127. 

 Ursus americanus var. cinnamoneus, I!D., Mninm., N. A., 1857, 228. 



Specimen. 



Widely distributed throughout North America, and quite numerous in 

 the three Territories visited. In one locality, in the Miembres Mountains, a 

 number were seen. Mr. Henshaw records the fact that one of the hunters 



