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Skull of very old animal, witli the crown-crests very high. — Nose 

 broad, as broad as the width of the forehead between the orbits, 

 rather flattened above. Forehead concave in the middle, in front 

 and between the orbits. The zygomatic arch very broad and con- 

 vex. The orbit small, rather oblong, oblique. The palate nearly 

 flat, broad. The tubercular grinders very large, elongate, full half 

 as long again as the flesh-teeth. 



This skull is full as large as that of U. ferox, but more ventricose ; 

 the palate is broad, as in U. arcios ; but the tubercular grinder is 

 longer, and as long as that of U. ferox. I am inclined to regard it 

 as a good species, but wait for further specimens. 



In a smaller skull of an adult Bear, sent from Sweden by Mr. 

 Lloyd, the palate is even and rather concave. The hinder aperture 

 of the nostiils is rather wide, scarcely contracted behind, and regu- 

 larly arched in front, with a sUght central tubercle. The length 

 of the skull below, from front teeth to condyle, 1| inch, of palate 

 6^ inches ; width at condyles of lower j aw Gi inches, of nose in front 

 of orbit 2^ inches, of nose-aperture 1| inch, higher than wide ; 

 length of suture of lower jaw 2| inches ; length of hinder upper 

 grinder 1| inch, rather longer than in the other larger skulls, and 

 much longer than in the skulls of nearly the same size from Nor- 

 way, where the tooth is only 1-^^ inch long ; width between orbits 

 2|- inches, at back of orbit 3| inches. 



Var. 3. collans. 



Fur shaggy, hair long, with closer under-fur, black-grey ; the 

 legs and feet blacker ; the head pale brown ; the shoulders often 

 marked with a white oblique streak, making a collar. 



Ursus collaris (Ours de Siberie), F. Cuvier, Mavim. Lithogr. xhii. 



Ursus arctos coUaris, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 685. 



Ursus arctos, var. beringiana (partly), Middendorff, Sib. Reise, i. 



pp. 53, 74, t. 1. £ 1-4 (skull) ; Von Schrenck, Reisen im A?mirlan(le, 



i. pp. 11, 13, 16. 

 Ursus ferox, Temm. Fauna Japon. (not Leiois and Clark). 

 A Brown Bear from Hakodadi, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 374. 



Hob. Kamtschatka and Amurland ; Japan, Northern Island ; 

 Zool. Gardens. 



The French naturalist of the ' Venus ' obtained a Brown Bear at 

 Kamtschatka, and carried it alive to Paris ; and they considered it 

 like the true U. arctos (Baird, Rep. p. 221). 



Thi.« Bear is very unlike the Ursus arctos of Sweden, with which 

 alone I have the opportunity of comparing it. 



