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Numerous other naturalists during the succeeding 

 years suggested other names for the grizzly, such as 

 Ursus ferox (DeWitt Clinton), Ursus candescens (Hamilton 

 Smith), Ursus cinereus (Richard Harlan). It being, how- 

 ever, a well-established rule that the name first given to a 

 new species by its scientific classifier shall be retained, the 

 grizzly bear is known to science as Ursus horribilis; and, 

 it being also customary to add to the Latin name of any 

 animal the name of the scientist who first formally de- 

 scribed and named it, the Rocky Mountain grizzly is 

 specifically known as Ursus horribilis Ord. 



Mr. Ord, quoting Mr. Brackenridge as his authority, 

 says: 



"This animal is the monarch of the country which he 

 inhabits. The African lion or the tiger of Bengal are not 

 more terrible or fierce. He is the enemy of man and liter- 

 ally thirsts for human blood. So far from shunning, he 

 seldom fails to attack and even to hunt him. The Indi- 

 ans make war upon these ferocious monsters with the 

 same ceremonies as they do upon a tribe of their own 

 species, and, in the recital of their victories, the death of 

 one of them gives the warrior greater renown than the 

 scalp of a human enemy. He possesses an amazing 

 strength, and attacks without hesitation and tears to 

 pieces the largest buffalo. The color is usually such as 

 the name indicates, although there are varieties from 

 black to silvery whiteness. In shape he differs from the 

 common black bear in being proportionately more 

 long and lank. He does not climb trees, a circum- 

 stance which enables hunters, when attacked, to make 

 their escape." 



