ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



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PENINSULA BEAR CAPTURED AT MOELLER BAY, ALASKA PENINSULA. 



A GREAT COLLECTION OF BEARS. 



If properly established, no captive wild ani- 

 mals more fully repay their cost and keep than 

 a collection of bears that has been judiciously 

 formed. It is true tliat they are very trouble- 

 some comforts, and that every big bear is a 

 storm-center; but we like them, for all that. 

 When comfortably installed in large, clean 

 yards, with plenty of sunlight, fresh water, 

 rocks to climb upon and a good variety of food, 

 they are full of action, and constitute a great at- 

 traction to visitors. 



From the beginning, we have striven to bring 

 together as many as possible of the species of 

 bears with which the public is but little ac- 

 quainted. First we devoted special attention to 

 the Alaskan Brown Bears, — the giants of the 

 genus Ursus, — and to-day we have four good 

 species, with the prospect of a fifth one when a 

 certain young animal matures. One of these 

 has come to us from north of the Arctic Circle, 

 only 300 miles south of Point Barrow (the most 

 northerly point of Alaska), which is the most 

 •northerly habitat for a bear of this group. 



We have also recently secured, — after ten 

 years of constant effort, — a black bear from 

 .South America, which represents the form de- 

 scribed by Oldfield Thomas as Ursus ornatus 

 majori. Of our old friend, the Rocky Moun- 

 tain Grizzly, we have specimens from several 

 diiferent localities. 



The following is a list of our specimens and 

 species, as the collection stands to-day: 



2 Polar Bears Ursus VHiritimiis. 



'2 Kadiak Bears " middendorffi. 



'1 Yakutat Bears " dalU. 



1 Admiralty Bear " eulophus. 



1 Peninsula Bear " merriami. 



1 Arctic Brown Bear " undetermined. 



■J Grizzly Bears " IwrribUis. 



9 Black Bears " americanus. 



1 Syrian Bear " si/riacus. 



2 Brown Bears " nrctos. 



2 Hair3'-Eared Bears " piscator. 



I Himalayan Black Bear " torquatus. 



1 Japanese Bear _ " japonicus. 



2 Yezo Bears " ferox. 



1 Sloth Bear " labiafin). 



'2 Sun Bears " malayanus. 



1 Andes Black Bear " ornatus ninjori. 



3 Hybrids, born here. 



">1 specimens, representing 17 species. 



