GRIZZLY BEAR 



was a plains species." (Merriam) Found in "Southern 

 Rocky Mountain region from San Juan Mountains, south- 

 western Colorado, northward through Wyoming to Mon- 

 tana, and perhaps to southeastern British Columbia." 

 (Merriam) 



Yakutat Grizzly. — Ursus nortoni Merriam. 



"Head grizzled yellowish or golden brown; muzzle pale 

 brown; neck and shoulders to middle of back pale buffy 

 from the long whitish buff-tipped hairs, giving the skin 

 viewed from behind a decidedly whitish appearance; hinder 

 back and rump dark, well washed with pale brown tips; 

 lower part of legs and feet dark brown; back of forefeet 

 browner and not so dark; underchin and throat pale soiled 

 buffy whitish," (Merriam) Found at Yakutat Bay, 

 Alaska. 



Black Hills Grizzly. — Ursus rogersi hisonophagus Merriam, 

 Size large; claws of moderate length, strongly curved; color 

 of male: "muzzle pale brown (apparently old pelage) ; head 

 and face blackish, becoming slightly grizzled posteriorly 

 and on lower part of cheeks by wash of yellowish-brown- 

 tipped hairs; entire bod}^ legs, and feet very dark brown 

 overlaid on back by wash of light tips," (Merriam) 

 Taken at "Bear Lodge, Sundance National Forest, Black 

 Hills, northeastern Wyoming." (Merriam) 



Southern California Grizzly. — Ursus magister Merriam. 



"Size of male huge (estimated weight over 1,400 pounds), 

 largest of known Grizzlies, considerably larger than cali- 

 foj'fiicus of the IVIonterey region, and even than Jiorribilis, 

 the great buffalo-killing Grizzly of the Plains (only equaled 

 by the largest alexandrce of Kenai Peninsula) ; sexual dis- 

 parity great; skull of female hardly half the bulk of male; 

 skull of male of a rather generalized type; not dished. 

 Claws of old female from head of Trabuco Canyon, Santa 

 Ana Mountains, exceedingly long, strongly curved, mainly 

 yellowish above. Color (old female from head of Trabuco 

 Canyon) : General color dusky or sooty all over except head 

 and grizzling of back. Muzzle gray or mouse-brown, palest 

 above; top of head and neck very dark brown, sparsely 

 grizzled with pale-tipped hairs; back dusky grizzled with 

 grayish; legs and underparts wholly blackish," Known 

 from "Santa Ana or Trabuco Mountains, Cuyamaca and 

 Santa Rosa Mountains, and probably San Jacinto Moun- 

 tains. BeHeved to be extinct." (Merriam) 

 "Flesh measurements, — Old male. . . : Height at shoulder 

 from flat of foot, 4 ft, . . . ; total length, snout to tail, 9>^ 

 ft, . . . ; sole of largest foot without claws: length 12 in. 

 . . . . ; breadth, 8 in, . . . Length of old female from 

 Trabuco Canyon, measured in the flesh by Andrew Joplin, 

 6 ft. 3 in," (Merriam) 



New Mexico Grizzly. — Ursus horricBUs (Baird). 



"Size medium; external characters unknown. Range. — 



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