86 URSIDA. 
‘ARNIVORA. URSID AE. 
Fossil, 2 nat. size, Gailenreuth. 
URSUS SPELALUS. Great Cave Bear. 
Ursus speleus, BLUMENBACH, CuviER, Bulletin des Sciences, par la 
Soc. Philomath, No. 50,1796. Annales du Mu- 
séum, tom. vil. Ossem. Fossiles, 4to. 1823, tom. 
iv. p. 845. 
Ursus fornicatus magnus, | SCHMERLING, Recherches sur les Ossem. Fossiles dé- 
couverts dans les Cayernes de la Province de 
Liege, 4to. 1833, p. 105. 
Ursus arctoideus, BLUMENBACH, CUVIER, loc. cit. 
Ursus fornicatus minutus, | SCHMERLING, loc. cit. 
Ursus planus, OKEN. 
Fossil Bear different from the White Bear, HunvER, Phil. Trans. vol. Ixxxiv. 1794. 
Joun Hunrer, who first mstituted an anatomical com- 
parison between the remains of extinct Bears and the bones 
of those of the present period, selected the White, or Polar 
Bear, for this purpose, as being the largest existing species 
with which he was acquainted, as well as that to which the 
fossils of gigantic Bears from the German caverns had been 
referred by Esper and other preceding writers. In regard 
to the cranium, Hunter* alludes, with philosophic cau- 
tion, to the modifications of shape which are due to age 
in carnivorous animals, and he restricts himself to pointing 
* Loc. cit. p. 419. 
