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usual length ; they all have rather narrow palates. The forehead 

 of/ is convex and rounded. 



Skull elongate. Nose broad, compressed, the sides sheh-ing above, 

 and fiat over the nasals ; nasals short, scarcely reaching to the front 

 edge of the orbits. Orbits oblong, ovate, longitudinal. The fore- 

 head between the orbits convex, rounded, rather wider than the 

 hinder part of the nose. The crown arched, the most convex part 

 being in front of the condyles. The zygomatic arch narrow, elon- 

 gate. The palate narrow, deeply concave in front, narrower between 

 the tubercular teeth, narrower behind, with a large elongate opening 

 to the hinder nostrils, which has an arched front edge, and the side 

 more than twice the length of the width of the front edge. The 

 tubercular grinder veiy large, wide, oblong, as wide and much longer 

 than the flesh-tooth. 



As in the other Bears, the skull varies in the width and form of 

 the front edge of the opening of the hinder nostrils, and also a little 

 in the surface of the palate. There is in the Museum a specimen of 

 a young Bear, received from Mr. Oldham under the name of (Jrsus 

 hindaicus arhoreus, that has a wide front edge to the hinder nosti"ils ; 

 and the palate in front of the opening is concave, with a slight keel 

 on each side ; but we have a skull of a young Uvsus tibetunus, from 

 Mr. Hodgson, snih. a similar opening to the hinder nostrils. 



6. Ursus japonicus. 



Black; fur short, dense, polished ; hair on sides of neck longer ; 

 face black, clothed with short hair ; ears large ; throat with a slight, 

 undefined whitish line ; head short, rounded ; muzzle rather short. 



Ursus japouieus, Sclatcr, P. Z. 8. 1862, p. 2(31, pi. 32 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 

 ^ 18C>4, p. 089. 

 Ursus tibetanus, Temin. Fauna Japan, p. 29. 



Uab, Japan (^Vivar. Soc. Zooh). 



7. Ursus inomatus. 



Ursus mornatus, Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. Zool. viii. p. 392; Arch, fur 

 Natunj. 1856, p. 43 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 690. 

 Hub. Ceylon. A young specimen. 



b. Long-clawed American Bears. The fur shaggy. Front claws much longer 

 than the hinder one, broadly depre-nsed, ichitish. The palate narroio and 

 contracted behind. Ears small. Hind feet elongate. North America. 

 Daxis. 



Grizzlv American Bears (Danis), Gray, Ann. of Philosophy, 1825 ; 



P. Z. S. 1804, p. 090. 



The skuU of these Bears more resembles that of the European 



Bears than that of the short-footed, smooth-haired American Bears ; 



for De Blainville calls the Pacific Grizzly Bear only a variety of Ursus 



arctos. 



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