3. MTEMARCTOS. 



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Skull of nearly adult Bear from Norway. The palate is very con- 

 cave, especially in the midcUe of its length, in a line with the first 

 large false molar; the hinder edge rather concave, and smoothed 

 hehiud, near the front edge of the internal nostrils, which is thin and 

 regularly arched ; the aperture of the hinder nostril large, rather 

 broader in front than behind. The hinder tubercular grinder rather 

 short. Forehead quite flat, produced behind to a line over the ears, 

 not convex above the orbits, narrow between the orl)its. Nose broad, 

 flat at tip ; nasal bones only extending to rather behind the front 

 edge of the orbit, not nearly so far as in U. arctos of Sweden. The 

 aperture for the passage of the artery to the palate in a line with 



Fig. 30. 



Skidl of 3Iynnarctos Eccrsmanni, from Norway. 



the front edge of the hinder grinder. Length of the skull below 

 11^ inches, of palate 5^ inches; width at condyle of lower jaw 6g 

 inches, of nose behind, at aperture 2|, at canines 21, of uosc-aper- 

 turc 1 1 inch, between orbits '2\ inch, at back of orbits 3| inches. 



T think that the skeleton which is in the British Museum, which 

 was received from Mr. Brandt of Hamburg as that of a Bear from 



