82 URSID ®. 
CARNIVORA. URSID 5. 
Fig. 25. 
Fossil ursus PRiscus, } nat. size. Kent’s Hole. 
Fig. 26. 
Recent Brown Bear— Alps. } nat. size. 
URSUS PRISCUS. 
Ursus priscus, Goupruss, Nova Acta Academiz Nat. Cur. t. x. pt. 2, p. 259. 
Ours intermédiaire, CuviER, Ossem. Fossiles, 4to., ed. 1828, tom. iy. p. 356. 
Tus extinct species was established upon characters de- 
duced from a nearly entire cranium, discovered in the cele- 
brated bone-cave at Gailenreuth, and which is now in the 
British Museum. Though this specimen has evidently, by 
the abraded summits of the grinding teeth, belonged to 
an aged individual, this must have been less than the Bear 
from the Manea Fen or the great European Black Bear. 
The contour of the skull of the Ursus priscus is less 
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