718 CLASS XVII. 



the white lateral stripe and with shorter tail ; lives in the northern part of 

 India. 



5—5 3—3 



Gulo Store. Molar teeth ^ — ^ , false j — ^ . Upper tuber- 



culate tootli transverse, lower small, with crown oblong and rounded. 

 (Laniary tooth as in the preceding genus). Ears short, rounded. 



3 — 3 



Feet subplantigrade. Tail short. (Dent. form. Owen, i. ^ _ ^ > 



1-1 4-4 1-1 _. 



Sp. Guloarciicus Desmab., Mustela Gulo L., UrsusGulo Pall., Gm., Scheeb. 

 Sduffth. Tab. 144, 144*, Guee. Iconogr., Mammif. PI. 14, fig. 2; the 

 glutton, le glouton, der Vielfrass; red-brown, on the back dark brown, 

 3' in size ; in Lapland, Finland and the North of Asia and Canada ; preys 

 by night, and attacks reindeers and other large animals by leaping from 

 trees on their neck; compare Pallas Spic. Zool. xiv. pp. 25 — 41. 



(The North American glutton, which does not appear to be a different 

 species, occurs in Linn^us under the name of Ursus luscus.) 



Family XXXVII. Ursina. Two tuberculate teeth on each 

 side in upper jaw, one or two in lower. Laniary molar nearly 

 resembling the tuberculate tooth, with crown flat, thicker. Feet 

 plantigrade, covered below with hairless skin, pentadactylous. 



Q—Q 3 — .3 



Ursus L. (excl. of some species). Molar teeth = — - , false j — '-., 



often deciduous, tuberculate ^ — ^ , with last upper and penulti- 



mate lower, very large. Laniary tooth with flat, tuberculate crown. 

 Nose produced, mobile, truncate anteriorly. Ears small, erect, 



.3—3 1—1 



rounded. Tail very short. (Dent. form. Owen, i. k — ^ , c. - — --, 

 ^^ o — 01— 1 



The Bears. Species of this genus are found in almost all regions of the 

 earth. They are in part animals that live on vegetable as well as animal 

 food. They dilacerate flesh, not with their molars, which are little suited 

 to that use, but with the incisors only. When excited they raise them- 

 selves upi-ight on their hind feet and strike with their fore feet. 



Sp. Ursus Arctos L., Buff. viii. PI. 31, Schbebeb's Sdugth. Tab. 139, 140, 

 Menag. du Mus. i. pp. 177 — 198; figures of the skull may be found in 

 Ann. du Mus. vii. PI. 21, figs, i — 4; the common or hrown hear; hair 

 brown, close, woolly; head forwards between the eyes convex; snout 

 pointed. This species lives in forests and mountainous districts of many 

 countries of Europe and Asia; it feeds on fruits, roots, honey, ants, and, 

 in case of need, on mammals also. The bear attains a great age ; when 



