106 URSID Aa. 
upper Jaw; it is smaller than the corresponding tooth in 
the Ursus speleus. Similarly coloured and triturated teeth 
of fishes have been procured in abundance from the same 
pit. According to this view, the fossil Bear in question 
belongs to the miocene strata.* 
In conclusion, it may be stated on the evidence at 
present acquired, that the period of the existence of 
U. Arctos. U. priscus. U. speleus. 
the Ursine genus in this island has extended from the 
* For the data respecting this view the reader is referred to Mr. Lyell’s paper 
in the “ Annals of Natural History.” No, 23, pp. 187 and 188, 1839. 
