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



This bear is conhned to the southern districts of Ahtska, its place in 

 the Yukon Valley being taken by the grizzly. 



A bear from Sitka Island, in the Alexander Archipelago, which is 

 situated south of Yakutat Bay, has been separated by Dr. Merriam in the 

 memoir cited above, under the name of Ursi/s sitkcnsis. In his description 

 Dr. Merriam observes that " the Sitka bear resembles the Yakutat bear in 

 general appearance, but is decidedly smaller, and differs widely in dental 

 characters. It lacks the excessive development of the last upper premolar 

 which characterises Ursi/s dalli, and the front lower molar [carnassial] is 

 unique among the large bears, lacking the tubercles that are present in all 

 the others between the anterior and posterior parts of the tooth. In this 

 respect the tooth approaches, though it does not really resemble, that of 

 the black bear." 



Bearing in mind the comparatively small distance between Sitka Island 

 and Yakutat Bay, and likewise that the bear from the former locality was 

 described on the evidence of a single specimen, it appears desirable to 

 await the acquisition of additional examples before admitting its right to 

 distinctness. The peculiarities in the dentition of the type specimen may 

 be merely individual. In any case, this bear cannot be regarded as more 

 than a local race. 



THE GRIZZLY, OR ROCKY MOUNTAIN BROWN BEAR. 



( Ursiis arctiis horribilis) 



The true " grizzly " of the Rocky Mountains was originally described 

 from Montana by Ord, in that rare book the second American edition 

 of Guthrtes Geography, published in 1 8 1 5. The typical form ranges as 

 tar south as Utah and a long distance into British Columbia. The grizzly 

 of the Yukon Valley and Norton Sound, Alaska, differs, however, to a 



