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Common Blackbear, American Blackbear, or 

 Cinnamon Bear. 



Ursus americanus Pallas. 

 (L. Ursus, a bear; L. americanus, American.) 



Ursus americanus Pallas, 1780, Spicil. Zool. Fasc. XIV, 



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Type Locality. — Eastern North America. 



French Canadian, I'Ours noir, VOurs cVAmerique. 



Cree, Kus-kit-tay' Mus-kiua' (Blackbear); Sau-wis' 

 Mus-kwa' (Yellow or Brown-bear). 



Saut., Mak-a-tay' Muk-zva'. 



OjIB., Mah-kay-tay' May-kiva'. 



Chipewyan, Sass. 



Yankton Sioux, Wah-conk-seach Sa'-pa. 



Ogallala Sioux, Mah-to'-wah-hay. See'-cha (Black- 

 bear), Mah-to'-ho'-tah (Brown-bear). 



The Blackbear has the characteristics of the genus as set 

 forth already, and is further distinguished by the short-curved 

 claws on its front feet and the straight profile of the skull. 

 Besides these, its peculiarities of dentition, size, and colour are 

 very distinctive. 



A fair-sized and fat she Bear shot in Colorado measured 

 as follows: Snout to tail-tip, 63I inches (1,613 mm-); tail, 5 

 inches (127 mm.); hind-foot, 7^ inches (184 mm.); height at 

 shoulders, 252 inches (648 mm.). It weighed 2272 pounds. 



A large male Cinnamon Bear killed by J. H. Cadham, 25 

 miles south-east of Winnipeg, weighed 265 pounds; 200 pounds 



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