THE STORV OP THR BEAR. 



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found in the Pyrenees, aiid are comparatively common in many parts of 

 Scandinavia, Germany, Huiigar}-. and Russia. At what date they finally dis- 

 appeared from the British Islands cannot be determined. There is evidence 

 to show that bears were still in existence in the eighth century; and, in the 

 time of Edward the Confessor, the town of Norwich had to furnish annually 

 one bear to the kinsr. There is no decisive historical evidence as to the 



THE ARCTIC OR POLAR BEAR. 



existence of bears in Ireland, but remains have been found there in various 

 parts, which in all probability belonged to the present species, although they 

 have been referred by some to the American grizzly bear. 



In the Himalaya the brown bear is found from Afghanistan in the west 

 to Nipal in the east. It does not occur in the more or less Tibetan districts 

 of Zanskar and Ladak, but extends up the valley of the Indus as far as Gilgit. 



