locality of the Missouri River a little above the 

 mouth of Poplar River, northeastern Montana. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam is the supreme authority 

 concerning bears. Following I give his classifica- 

 tion of the grizzly and big brown bears, together 

 with quotations from his introduction to "North 

 American Fauna, No. 41 " (1918) : — 



"review of the grizzly and big brown bears 



OF NORTH AMERICA (Genus Ursus) 



"with DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS 



VETULARCTOS 



"When Audubon and Bachman published their 

 great work on the Mammals of North America 

 ( 1 846-1 854), and in fact up to the year 1857, it was 

 commonly believed by naturalists as well as by 

 hunters and the public generally that there was 

 only a single species of grizzly bear — the one de- 

 scribed by Lewis and Clark in 1804-5, and named 

 Ursus horrihilis by Ord in 1 815. Baird, in 1857, de- 

 scribed another species, from Coppermines, New 

 Mexico, which he named Ursus horricBUS. 



"Nearly forty years later, in my 'Preliminary 

 Synopsis of the American Bears,' eight grizzlies 

 and big brown bears were recognized, of which five 



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