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URSUS. BEAR. 



Generic Character. 



Denies Primores superiores 

 sex, intus excavati, alterni. 

 Inferiores sex ; laterales 

 duo longiores, lobati; se- 

 cundarii basi interiores. 



Laniarii solitarii. 

 Mclares quinque seu sex, pri- 

 mo laniariis approximate. 



Lingua bevis. 

 Nasus prominens. 

 Membrana nictitans. 



Front-teeth six both above and 

 below: the two lateral ones 

 of the lower jaw longer 

 than the rest and lobed; 

 with smaller or secondary 

 teeth at their internal bases. 



Canine-teeth solitary. 



Grinders five or six on each 

 side-, the first approximat- 

 ed to the canine-teeth. 



Tongue smooth. 



Snout prominent. 



Eyes furnished with a nicti- 

 tating membrane. 



Ursns Arctos. Ursusfuscomgrkans, cauda abrupta. IMI. Syst. 



Nat. Gmel.p. 100. 



Blackish-brown Bear with abrupt tail. 

 Ursus. Gesn. Quadr. 14. Aldr. dig. 117. 

 Ours. Buff. 8. p. 248. pi. 3 1, 32. 

 Brown Bear. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. i. 



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THE common Bear, with some variation as to 

 size and colour, is a native of almost all the 

 northern parts of Europe and Asia, and is even said 

 to be found in some of the Indian islands, as Cey- 



