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enormous skin of this bear, and it is probable that old individuals attain a 

 length of at least 9 feet. Mr. Littledale's specimen, which is apparently 

 immature, is, however, much smaller, its length being only about 6 feet 

 2 inches, and its height at the shoulder 38 inches. 



In this specimen the general colour of the shaggy fur is very pale 

 brown, flecked with whitey- brown, the muzzle being whitey- brown ; 

 below each ear, which is very short and thickly fringed with hair, is a 

 patch of fur of a wood-brown colour, and there is a brown patch round 

 each eye ; except where they are overhung on the outer side by the long 

 light hair of the back, the limbs are of a full wood-brown, passing into 

 blackish-brown on the feet. There is no white collar. Older animals 

 become much darker, often blackish-brown with a tinge of grey, the 

 limbs being nearly black. 



The Ursiis collaris of Frederic Cuvier [Mammifcrcs^ pi. xliii.) was 

 named on the evidence of an apparently immature bear from Siberia whose 

 coat is much the same in colour as in Mr. Littledale's specimen. There 

 is, however, a broad white collar extending right across the shoulders and 

 neck, and apparently denoting a tendency to albinism in this particular 

 specimen, which was described in 1824. In 1851, Middendorff, in his 

 Sibirisc/ie Re/'sc, described a bear from Siberia as U. arctiis, var. hcringiana, 

 which is doubtless the same. But Professor I. Geoftroy St. Hilaire, in the 

 Zoology of the Voyage of the'-'- Veniis^'' hgured a bear from Kamchatka, to which 

 in 1855 Monsieur Pucheran {Keviie Zoologie, p. 392) gave the name of Urs/zs 

 piscator ; and in 1867 Mr. P. L. Sclater ^ identified with that species an 

 individual from Kamchatka then living in the London Zoological Gardens. 

 The latter bear, which was renamed by Dr. Gray in 1867 V. lasiotus, seems 

 to be undoubtedly the adult of the same species as the one to which Mr. 

 Littledale's mounted specimen belongs ; and as shown above, tlie latter 

 appears inseparable from F. Cuvier's U. coUaris, which is the earliest name 



^ P?oc. Zoo/. Soc. London, 1867, 817, Fig. 



