114 C'mnamo7h Bear, — ITrsus Cinnamomum'.. 



AETICLE XYI. — Gn the Cinnamon Bear {Ursus cimiamomum.y 



UESUS CINNAMOMUM. 



Specific Ciiaracters.— F6?-??i and size of the cmnmon American." 

 Black Bear, of which it is a permanent variety. Colour r 

 above, dark cinnamon brown, nose and a fringe of hair 

 covering the claws^ yellow. Inhabits the fitr countries west 

 and north of the Missouri, extending to the Barren Grounds ^ 

 of the north-west.— AimvBO}^ & BAcmiAN. 



The Cinnamon Bear is of the same size and form as the black bear, 

 but all the individuals being of a different, colour, and the hair being- 

 somewhat longer and finer, it has been thought proper to classify it as a. 

 distinct species, or rather as a permanent variety. The traders procure: 

 many of the skins each year, and they are much more valuable than those 

 of the black bear,, on account of the length and fineness of the fur. There 

 is a bear described by Sir John Eichard.son, {Ursus Arctos) which appears- 

 to be the same as the present species. Sir John calls it the '' Barren 

 Ground Bear," it being found in that part of the Hudson's Bay Territory 

 called the Barren Grounds. Its habits appear to be the same as those of 

 the black bear. Several years since a bear was killed near the Chatts, on 

 the Biver Ottawa, of a light i-eddish brown, which may have been of tiiis 

 species. In 1804, an expedition, under the direction of two adventurous 

 oxplorere, Messrs. Lewis and Clark, was despatched from the States across 

 the Rocky Mountains, to Oregon, and in the uaiTative of the journey the 

 following account is given of this animal : — 



" Two men \'isited the Indian village, w^here they purchased a dressed 

 bear skin, of a uniform pale reddish brown colour, w'hich the Indians called' 

 yo-ckah in contradistinction to hohhost, or the white bear. This remark 

 induced us to inquire more particularly into their opinions as to the several 

 species of bears ; and we therefore produced all the skins of that animal 

 which we had killed at this place, and also one very nearly white, which 

 we had purchased. The natives immediately classed tlie white, the deep 

 and the pale grizzly red, the grizzly dark brown, in short, all those with 

 the extremities of the hair of a white or frosty colour, without regard to 

 the colour of the ground of the soil, under the name of hohhost.. They 

 assured us, that they wrere all of the same species with the white bear ; tlmt 

 tiiey associated together, had longer nails than the others, and never 

 Climbed trees. On the other hand, the black skins, those which w^re 

 black, with a number of entire white hairs intermixed, or with a white 

 breast, the uniform bay, the brown, and light reddish brown, were ranged 



