88 Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America 



Ears short, deep brownish bhick, with a patch of grey hair within. The 

 under-parts dusky terruginous, greyish with long hairs between the thighs, 

 and with a large white spot on the breast, the ferruginous colour very 

 much narrowed on the neck, but dilated on the lower part of the cheeks ; 

 legs brownish black with a slight admixture of grey hairs, excepting on the 

 anterior edge of the thighs, and the lower edgings of the toes, where the 

 grey predominated. The tail was short, fusiform, a little tinged with 

 terruginous, black above near the base and at the tip. . . . The longer 

 hairs of the back, particularly over the shoulders, revealed a short, sparse 

 mane." 



This somewhat technical description may enable sportsmen to determine 

 to which ot the two forms any American wolf- skin they may possess 

 should be referred. The relative shortness of the tail appears to be a 

 distinctive feature of the timber-wolf 



THE EUROPEAN BROWN BEAR 



( Ursi/s arctiis) 



The question whether Ursiis arctus, as typified by the brown bear of 

 Scandinavia, is a circumpolar species, and also whether (apart from the 

 polar bear) there is more than a single species of bear inhabiting North 

 America, is one which has given rise to a considerable amount of 

 discussion and difference of opinion among naturalists. The answer 

 depends in no inconsiderable degree on the views held by individual 

 zoologists as to the amount of difference between allied animals necessary 

 to constitute species. And in this connection it should be mentioned as 

 an important element in the discussion, that a similar diversity of view 

 obtains with regard to the relationships of the brown bears of Europe and 

 Western and Northern Asia ; many naturalists regarding the brown bear 



