South Alaskan Brown Bear 99 



able on account of its extreme elongation and narrowness ; and there are 

 likewise other structural peculiarities in the skull, which are mentioned in 

 the writer's notes on the races ot the brown bear published in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Zoological Society of London tor 1897. The last premolar tooth in 

 the lower jaw is characterised by its extreme shortness, and the almost 

 complete obliteration of its inner tubercles, the hinder one of which is well 

 developed in the Kamchatkan race. 



Compared with Dr. Merriam's figure of the sub-adult skull of the Kadiak 

 bear, the corresponding British Museum specimen appears larger, with a 

 smaller degree of expansion across the cheek-arches, and the arching of the 

 profile not so high or so sudden, but more regular. 



The writer has never had an opportunity of seeing a skin ot this bear. 

 It is, however, doubtless the animal from the north island of Japan described 

 by Temminck in his Fauna Japonica, and identified with the grizzly bear 

 of North America, under the name ot Ursi/s ferox. 



THE SOUTH ALASKAN BROWN BEAR 



[Ursus arc til s da III) 



(Plate H. Fig. 3) 



This huge bear, which is one of those named in 1896 by Dr. Merriam, 

 is typically from Yakutat Bay, South-Eastern Alaska. It is represented by 

 a mounted example in the British Museum, from which the head shown in 

 the plate has been drawn. From the Kadiak Island bear it difters by its 

 slightly inferior size, and by the slight elevation of the frontal region of the 

 skull, which is almost flat. The front claws of the specimen in the British 

 Museum are long and much curved ; the hair being dark brown in colour, 

 without a white gorget on the chest. 



