UROCYON. URSUS. 300 



Geogr. Distr. California to Washington. 



Genl. Char. Similar to U. c. texensis, with longer ears and 

 grayer, less fulvous coloring. 



Color Like U. cinereo-argcntcus, with the color of the back about 

 the same, but the coloration as a whole is paler; and the California 

 animals lack the black down the fore legs. 



Measurements. Total length, 890; tail vertebra, 330; hind 

 foot, 120. (Mearns, 1. c.) 



e.—townsendi. (i'rocypn), Merr. N. Am. Faun., No. 16, 1899, p. 103. 



Type locality. Baird, Shasta County, California. 



Geogr. Distr. Transition Zone, Shasta, California. 



Gfiil. Char. Similar to U. californicus, but ears smaller, fulvous 

 tints darker; rostrum broader, zygomata broader anteriorly; carnas- 

 sials larger and thicker. 



Color. Above grizzled gra)' and black, fulvous coloring darker 

 than in U. californicus. Sides of neck and lower part of throat rufous; 

 ears dark, grizzled fulvous, chin white. Tail like upper parts. 



f.—ocythous. [L'rocvon), Bangs, New Eng. Zool. Club, 1899, p. 43. 



Type locality. Platteville, Wisconsin. 



Geogr. Distr. Upper Mississippi Valley. 



Gcnl. Char. Size large, colors deeper than typical style. 



Color. As compared with U. cinereo-argentcus, back and sides 

 are more yellowish, not so gray; red sides of neck, lower sides, arms 

 and legs more ferruginous; under surface and sides of tail more fer- 

 ruginous, less black and gray; outer surface of ear much more fer- 

 ruginous without so marked a dull grayish, brown tip. (Bangs, 1. c.) 



Measurements. Type. Total length, 1024; tail vertebra;, 386; 

 hind foot, 136. 



Fam. III. Ursidae. 



C. H. Merriam. Preliminary Synopsis of the American Bears. Proc. 



Biol. Soc. Wash., i8q6, p. 65. 

 True molars with broad flat tuberculated crowns; fourth upper 

 premolar with no inner root, bullae scarsely inflated; soles naked; 

 feet plantigrade. 



Sub. Fam. I. Ursinae. 



73. Ursus. 



1.3-'; c. I^; P. '^■, M. '—'=42. 

 3-3 i-i' 4-4' 3-3 ^ 



Ursus, Linn., Syst. Nat., 1758, i, p. 47. Type U. arctus, Linn. 



Thalassarctos. Gray, Ann. of Phil., 1825, p. 62. 



Danis. Gray, Ann. Philos., 1825, p. Iv. 



Euarctos. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1864, p. 692. 



