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claws. The colour is black, with a V shaped spot 

 of white on the breast ; the limbs of the spot being 

 more open, and marking not the inside of the breast 

 but the edge of the shoulders. It is this species we 

 suspect to be mistaken, in India, for the Common 

 Bauloo, to which it bears considerable resemblance. 



U. IsabellinuS) Ilorsf. The Isabella Bear. Is a 

 variety or species from Nepaul, but little known. 

 Apparently allied to the Brown Bear, with small, 

 obtuse, straight claws, and a fawn coloured fur. One 

 more of these questionable varieties is, 



U. Syriacus. The Syrian Bear. Mentioned in 

 the Scriptures, noticed in the wars of the Crusades, * 

 and still found, but rarely, in Syria, The animal is 

 of a fulvous white, with large ears, a mane of stiff 

 erect hairs on the shoulders ; the rest of the body 

 with woolly fur, above which there is a longer, 

 rather soft coat of hair ; the tail, six inches long, the 

 claws small, the stature rather high, and bulk about 

 equal to the common Black Bear ; it feeds on flesh, 

 but more commonly on vegetables. 



Ursus Americanus. American Black Bear. 

 Head narrow, ears more remote, no depression be- 

 tween the eyes ; the muzzle prominent. The species 

 is lower on the limbs, and clothed with glossy black 

 longish fur; the nose and cheeks, to beyond the 



* One of these animals had nearly proved fatal to Godfrey 

 of Bouillon, at the siege of Antioch, as related by Math. Paris, 

 for, while riding alone, he encountered the beast, which had 

 attacked a poor wood cutter, and slew it ; but not without 

 receiving himself a dangerous wound. 



