232 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 

 Family URSIDAE. 



Genus URSUS Linnaeus.^ 



1758. U)'s)is LixxAEus, Syst. nat., x ed., i, p. 47. Type. 

 Ursus arctos Lixxaeus. 



Subgenus Ursi'S Linnaeus. 



Ursus middendorfSl Meniain. 



189G. Urstis nnddendorjffi Merriam, Proc. biol. soc. Washing- 

 ton, X, p. 69. April 18, 1896. 

 Type locality. — Kadiak Island, Alaska. 



Ursus dalli Merriam. 



1896. Ursus dalli Merriam, Proc. biol. soc. Washington, x, 



p. 71. April 13, 1896. 

 Type locality. — Yakutat Bay, Alaska. 



Ursus sitkensis Merriam. 



1896. Ursus sitkensis MerrIxVM, Proc. biol. soc. Washington, 



X, p. 73. April 13, 1896. 

 Type LorALiTY.- — Near Sitka, Alaska. 

 Regarded by Lydekker (Proc. zool. soc. London, 1897, p. 424) 

 as identical with U. dalli. 



Subgenus Daxis Gray. 



1826. Diinis Gray, Ann. of philos., n. s., x, p. 60. Type. 

 Ursus ferox Desmarest = Ursus horribills Ord. 



* Ursus horribilis Ord. 



1815. Ursus horrihilis Ord, Guthrie's geography, 2d Amer. 

 ed,, II, p. 291, described on p. 299. 



1 American species revised by Merriam, Proc. biol. soc. Washington x, pp. 65-83. 

 April 13, 1896. 



