220 URSID^. 



Subvar. e. meridionalis, Middendorff, Sibir. Reise, p. 74 ; Schrenck, 

 Amurland, p, 13. 

 Hah. Caucasus. 



Subvar. /. polonicus. 



Ours brun de Pologne (premiere varitSt^), Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. p. 332, 

 t. 22. f. 3 ; De Blaimille, Osteogr. t. 7. f. (adult skull). 



Crown of the skull very high over the condyles, and sloping down 

 rapidly behind and before ; canines very large, lower edge of lower 

 slightly curved. 



Subvar. g, 2>yrenaicus. 



Ours brun des Alpes, Btiffon, H. N. viii. pp. 24, 86, 61 ; Cuvier, Oss. 



Foss. iv. t. 22. f. 1, 2. 

 Ours brun des PjT^nees, Cuv. Oss. Foss. iv. p. 332. 

 Ours des Asturies, fcem. (U. arctos), De Blainv, ^Osteogr. Ursus, t. 3 



(skeleton), t. 7 (skull c^, adult). 

 Ursus arctos, Schi-vb. t. (from Bifffon). 

 Ursus pyrenaicus, F. Cuv. Mamm. Lithogr. xlv. t. (young). 

 Ursus arctos pyi-euaicus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 683. 



Hub. Pyrenees. 



Fur of young yellowish ; hairs brown, yeUow-tipped ; head deep 

 yellowish ; feet black. 



Subvar. h. niger. Fur black-brown. 



Ursus niger, Albert. Magn. de Anim. lib. xxii. p. 183. 



Ursus arctos niger, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 100. 



Ours noir d'Europe, Dauhenton ; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. p. 333, t. 20. 



f. 2-5, t. 21. f. 1, 2, 6-8. 

 Ursus niger, jP. Cuvier ; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 143; Keys. Sf Blasius, 



Wirh. Ettr. xix. p. 64. 

 Ursus arctos, var., Nikson, Skand. Fauna. 



Hah. Europe {Dauhenton and Cuvier). 



Skull of adult from Sweden. Presented by the Earl of Selkirk. 

 — Like former, 218 e, the palate is rather concave ; but the hinder 

 part in front of the inner nostril is flat, and the cavity of the 

 inner nostril contracted, with a thick arched front edge, of nearly 

 the same width as the back one. The lower jaw with a long, regu- 

 larly arched suture. Length of the skuU, from the front teeth to 

 the end of the condyle, 13^5. inches ; width at back of zygoma 



