204 Dr. C. W. Andrews on a 
XXII.—Note on a Bear (Ursus savini, sp. n.) from the 
Cromer Forest-bed. By C. W. ANDREWS, D.Sc., F.R.S. 
(British Museum, Natural History). 
(Published by permission of the ‘Trustees of the British Museum.) 
THE occurrence of the remains of bears in the Norfolk 
Forest-bed series has long been known. In 1845 Owen, in 
his ‘ British Fossil Mammals and Birds,’ described the man- 
dible of a large bear from high up in the series at Bacton, 
and referred it to Ursus speleus. 'UChis specimen, which was 
in the Green Collection, is now in the British Museum 
(16448). Numerous authors have since written upon the 
subject, and a summary of their various views is given by 
E. [. Newton in his ‘ Vertebrata of the Fossil Bed Series of 
Norfolk and Suffolk’ (1882), p. 5. Here he points out that 
the Forest-bed bears have been referred to four species— 
Ursus speleus, U. arvernensis, U. etruscus, and U. priscus,— 
but that, except in the case of the first-named species, there is 
no published record of the material upon which these deter- 
minations were based. 
Mr. Newton himself was able to examine some fifteen 
specimens, mostly lower jaws, and, with three exceptions, he 
refers all these to Ursus spelwus. The exceptions are a 
maxilla which he regards with some certainty as belonging 
to Ursus ferox-fossilis (=U. priscus=U. horribilis). ‘This 
specimen, which is labelled “U. priscus” in Falconer’s hand- 
writing, is figured by Newton (op. cit. pl. i. fig.5)._ It seems 
just possible that it may belong to the ordinary Forest-bed 
Bear. The other specimens referred doubtfully to Ursus 
ferox-fossilis are a left ulna and a second metacarpal. 
Having recently had occasion to examine most of the bear- 
remains in the British Museum, I paid particular attention to 
the Forest-bed bear, because it always seemed improbable 
that a Pliocene form should be identical with a late Pleistocene 
species, the associate of Hlephas primigenius and [hinoceros 
antiquitatis. The material upon which the conclusions here 
arrived at are based includes not only the specimens described 
by Mr. Newton and those belonging to the Savin Collection 
in the British Museum, but also a quantity of bear-remains 
collected in recent years by Mr. Savin, of Cromer, and now 
kindly lent by him for the purposes of this paper. 
The material now available for examination includes about 
