CHAPTER XIII. 



DOGS AND BEARS. 



COMPARATIVELY few animals belonging to a single order 

 are more unlike one another, both as regards external 

 as well as internal characters, than the bears and the 

 dogs, their dissimilarity being indeed so marked, that 

 not even the most unscientific person experiences the 

 slightest difficulty in distinguishing between the two 

 groups. Both groups, it. need scarcely be observed, 

 are members of the great order of Carnivorous mam- 

 mals, although the bears depart from the ordinary rule 

 in subsisting on a mixed diet. The former group, as is 

 well known, comprises a comparatively small number 

 of species, among which the European brown bear, the 

 closely allied Syrian bear, and the Isabelline bear of 

 the Himalaya, the North American grizzly bear, the 

 Indian sloth bear, and the Polar bear are typical ex- 

 amples, which are usually well represented in the 

 living state in the gardens of the Zoological Society, 

 and whose skeletons and stuffed skins may be seen in 

 the Natural History Museum. In the latter, and far 

 more numerous group, are included the wild and 

 domestic dogs, the wolves, jackals, foxes, and fennecs, 



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