Barren-Ground Brown Bear lo 



J) 



but not unduly stretched are known which measure from 9 feet 3 inches 

 to 10 feet in length. Dr. Rainsford estimates the weight of a full-grown 

 Sierra grizzly at from 900 to 1000 lbs., but there seems little doubt 

 individuals weighing from 1200 to 1400 lbs. were occasionally killed in 

 the old days. The reports of still greater weights must, however, be 

 received with extreme caution. 



Grizzlies, like the other American representatives of the brown bear, are, 

 writes Dr. Grinnell,^ much less tolerant of the approach of civilisation than 

 is the black bear, and are likely to quit any region where they are much 

 disturbed. " On the other hand, where bears come to feel a confidence 

 in their human neighbours, they are extraordinarily bold. It is but a 

 year or two since there was a bear living at Heart Butts, Montana, which 

 made a practice of coming into an Indian camp to find what he could to 

 eat. The Indians had no arms, and did not discuss his rights in the 

 premises, but promptly vacated the camp on his appearance." 



THE BARREN-GROUND BROWN BEAR 



{Ursiis arctus r'lchardson'i) 



This, the last and smallest American representative of the species, 

 was named in 1838 by Swainson, after the American naturalist Sir J. 

 Richardson. Its range includes the Barren Grounds between Hudson 

 Bay and the Mackenzie, and may perhaps extend some distance westward 

 of that river. Contrasted with that of the grizzly, the skull is shorter 

 and wider, with the muzzle abruptly truncated, so as to give a kind of 

 "pug-nosed"' appearance. This shortening, according to Dr. Merriam, 

 is especially noticeable in the region of the brain-case, the posterior roots 



^ Outing, vol. xxxvii. p. 257 (1900). 



