URSUS, 303 



»«. Skeleton $ King of Oudh, 1865. 



n. Skull ? Zoological Gardens. 



o. Skull $ Babu H. M. Roy. 



p. Skin, skull $ Napin, nr. Gilgit, J. Scully. 



29-10-79. 



q. Skin, skull $ Gakuch, nr. Gilgit, J. Scully, 



22-10-79. 



r. Skull $ Sharot, nr. Gilgit J.Scully. 



Var, — prjiinosus. 



a. Skin Thibet A. Campbell, A.S.B. 



b. Skin, skull pt. Lhassa W. T. Blanford. 



[Type of U. pruinosus, Blanford.] 



Ursus torquatus. 



Ursus thibetanus, F. Cuvier Hist. Nat. Mamm. livr. xli (1824); Blyth 



Cat. no. 225, p. 76 ; Jerdon Mamm,, p. 70; Radde Ost Siherien, i, p. 12 • 



Swinhoe P. Z. S., 1870, pp. 230 and 621 ; Atkinson N.-W. P. Gasett., 



xi, p. 10; Lydekker J. A, S. B., xlvi, p. 285; Anderson Anat. Zool. Res. 



intiod., p. xxi ; Murray Sind Zool., p. 39; id. Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), 



xiv, p. 98 ; Kiiiloch Large Game-shooting, i, p. 49. 

 Helarctos malayanus, apud Hodgson J. A. S. B., i, p. 340 (1832). 

 Ursus torquatus, Wagner ScJireb. Sdngeth.StippL, ii, p. 144, pi. i4id (1841) ; 



id. HiigeVs Kaschmir, iv, p. 570 ; Gray Cat. Cam. Mamm,, p. 225; Blan- 

 ford J A. S. B.,xW\,^. ^'^■O; Sterndale Mamm. Ind., p. 113; Blanford 



Ma^nmals, p. 197. 

 Ursus ferox Robinson Assam, p. g6 (1841). 

 Helarctos thibetanus. Gray List Mamm. B. M., p. 73 (1843); 'd. Cat. 



Hodgs Coll., ist ed., p. 15; Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mas., p. 122; Adams 



P. Z. S., 1858, p. 518. 

 Ursus formosianus, Swinhoe P. Z. S., p. 380 (1864). 

 Ursus gedrosianus, Blanford J. A. S. B., xlvi, p. 317 (1877) ; id, P. A. S, B., 



1879, p. 4. 



The Black Bear ; Harpat in Kashmir; IMumh in Baluchistan; 

 Bhalu Reench or Reech, Hind.; Thom, Bhotea; Sona, Lepcha. 



Distrihutioji. — From Baluchistan and the Khirthar hills in Sind 

 (Blanford) to Kashmir (Hugel) and so along the entire range of 

 the Himalayas to Assam, extending southwards through Burma as 

 far as Mergui ; and eastwards through China to Shantung and 

 the Islands of Hainan and Formosa (Swinhoe) and South-Eastern 

 Siberia. 



«• Skin $ Zoological Gardens. 



b. Skin Sanda Valley, Yunnan, J. Anderson. 



1,700 ft. 



c. Skin Assam, 27-6-72 S. E. Peal. 



d .Skin, skull $ L. C Griesbach. 



e. Stuffed No history. 



/. Skeleton No history. 



g. Skull Assam F. Jenkins, 1847, A.S.B. 



A. Skull No history, A. SB. 



j' Skull H. H. Godwin Austen, 



