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youngthere is often a white band round the neck. — Ursus americanus Pall., 

 ScHKEB. Siiugth. Tab. 141 b, Menag. du Mus. 11. pp. 144: — 155 (figures of 

 the skull in Ann. du Mus. 1. 1. fig. 5, 6) ; hair black and shining, the fore- 

 head fiat ; this species lives in North America. Another somewhat larger 

 species, chiefly distinguished by its long claws, lives in the interior of 

 North-western America: Ursus ferox Lewis and Clakke, Ursus cinereus 

 Desmar., Richardson Fauna horeali- Americana, 1. p. 24, PI. i. The 

 Prince Max. Von Wied has given recently a beautiful coloured figure of 

 this bear, and a careful drawing of its skull, Verhandl. der Kaiserl. Leopold. 

 Carol. AJcad. der Naturforsch. Vol. xxvi. i. 1857. — Ursus maritimus L., 

 Ursus marinus Pall., Spic. Zool. xiv. pp. i — 24, Tab. i. Schreb. Sdugth. 

 Tab. 141, Blumenb. Ahhild. No. 33, Menag. du Mus. 1. pp. 55 — 68; the 

 ice-hear. This species lives in the polar regions, more on the ice and in the 

 sea than on the land, and feeds on fish, seals, &c. The ice-bear is white 

 with nose black, not hairy; it has an elongate head, shorter ears, and the 

 soles of the feet longer than in the brown bear; it is the largest of this 

 genus, and attains a length of 7 feet. — Ursus lahiatus Blainv., Ursus longi- 

 rostris Tiedem., Bradypus ursinus Shaw, Naturalists' Miscellany, xix. 

 (London, 1792), Tiedemann Ahhandlung iiber das vermeintliche bdrenaiiige 

 Faulthier, mit einer Ahhild. Heidelberg, 1820, 4to ; Reichenbach in iVov. 

 Act. Acad. Cms. Nat. Cur. xiii. i, p. 325 (with a col. fig.); H. De Pom- 

 MERESOHE Commentatio de Ursi longirostris sceleto, Berolini, 1829, 4to; in 

 Bengal ; this animal was formerly referred incorrectly to the genus 

 Bradypus (or to a distinct genus of edentates, Prochilus Illiger), because 

 the specimen first observed had accidentally lost the incisor teeth, 



Difi'erent species of bears belonged to an earlier creation, to the diluvial 

 period chiefly, of which the remains have been found in caverns of lime- 

 stone-mountains that are fiilled with stalactites. These bones are but 

 slightly changed and only somewhat lighter and more brittle than the 

 recent. The species occurring most frequently is Ursus spelcetis Blumenb., 

 of which the size surpassed that of the largest ice-bear. Compare CuviER 

 A^in. du Mus. vii. pp. 301 — 372, PI. 18—24, ^^^ Bech. s. les Ossem. foss. 

 3it!me ^d., iv. pp. 340 — 380. 



6 _ 6 3—3 



Procyon Stoer. Molar teeth ^ — -r^ , false -r — ^ , tuberculate 



9 2 



1 T ' upper laniary tooth with internal central conic tubercle ; 



lower laniary tooth oblong, thick, almost similar to the tuberculate 

 tooth. Snout acute. Toes cloven. Tail moderate. (Dent. form. 



^ .3-3 1-1 4-4 2-2, „. 



Owen, i. 3—3, c. j— ^, p. ^-^ , m. ^—^=A0.) 



Sp. Procyon lotor Desmar., Ursxis lotw L., Buff. viii. PI. 43, Schreber 

 Sdugth. Tab. 143, Blumenb. Ahhild. No. 62, Guerin Iconogr., Mammif. 

 PI. 12, fig. 2, Diet. univ. d'Hist. nat,, Mammif. PI. 7 b; the racoon, le 

 raton, der Waschhdr; greyish-brown, the head above the eyes white, an 

 oblique black streak on each side below the eyes ; the tail with black rings ; 

 this species lives in North America. The racoon dips its food in water 

 before using it. — Procyon cancrivorus Illig., Desm., Ursus cancrivorus 



