GRIZZLY BEAR .— Ursus ferox. 



There are few animals which arc so widely and deservedly dreaded as the 

 Grizzly Bear. This terrible animal is an inhabitant of many portions of Northern 

 America, and is the acknowledged superior of cveiy animal that ranges over the 

 same country. 



All animals stand in gi'cat fear of this formidable beast, and display the 

 greatest terror even at the sight or the scent of a Bear-skin that has been stripped 

 from the body. Even the jjowcrlul bison fidls a victim to the Grizzly Bear, which 

 has been seen to spring upon the foremost bull of a herd, dash it to the ground, 

 and destroy it by a succession of tremendous blows with its armed ])aws. 

 Another of these animals contrived to carry off a bison that had been shot by a 

 hunter, and, after dragging it to some distance from the spot where it fell, to 

 bury it iu a j)it which it had dug for the reception of its prey. 



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