BLACK BEAR, Ursus americanus 



(Igagrik) 



Range.— Most of forested North America. 



Habitat.— \Yood\?Lnds or swamps, from sea level 

 to coniferous forests and lower tundra, high in the 

 mountains to well above timberline in summer. 



Races in Alaska.— The mainland race in most of 

 Alaska from the south slope of the Brooks Range 

 and below is the typical anverkamts; there are 

 records from Anaktuvuk Pass and Hunt Fork. 

 The race peimiger (type locality: Homer, Kenai 

 Peninsula) occupies the southern mainland from 

 the Kenai Penmsula to the vicinity of Yakutat 

 Bay, where it intergrades with emmonsi; the 

 island race pugnax (type locality: Rocky Bay, 

 now Bobs Bay, Dall Island) occurs on islands 

 south of Frederick Sound in southeastern Alaska ; 

 the "blue" or "glacier" bear, emmonsi (type local- 

 ity: Saint Elias Mountains, near Yakutat Bay) 

 ranges on the mainland from the type locality 

 south at least to the Taku River. This last form 

 was originally described as a distinct species, but is 

 now generally regarded as merely a color phase 

 of the black bear. 



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