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measure only three or four; the erect, bristling mane 

 of stiff hair, often six inches long; the coarse hair 

 of the body, sometimes three inches long, dark at 

 the base, but with light tips. He has a dark stripe 

 along the back, and one along each side, the hair on 

 his body being, as a rule, a brownish-yellow, the 

 region around the ears dusky, the legs nearly black, 

 and the muzzle pale. Color, however, is not a dis- 

 tinctive mark, for female grizzlies have been killed 

 in company with two cubs, one of which was brown, 

 the other gray, or one dark, the other light; and the 

 supposed species of " cinnamon" and " brown" 

 bears are merely color variations of Ursus horribilis 

 himself. 



This ubiquitous gentleman has a wide range for his 

 "habitat. He has been found on the Missouri river 

 from Fort Pierre northward, and thence west to his 

 favorite haunts in the Rockies: on the Pacific slope 

 clear down to the coast; as far south as Mexico, and as 

 far north as the Great Slave Lake in British America. 

 He not only ranges everywhere, but eats everything. 

 His majesty is a good liver. He is not properly a 

 beast of prey, for he has neither the cat-like instincts, 

 nor the noiseless tread of t\iefelidce, nor is he fleet 

 and long-winded like the wolf, although good at a 

 short run, as an unlucky hunter may find. But he 

 hangs about the flanks of a herd of buffalo, with 

 probably an eye to a wounded or disabled animal, 

 and he frequently raids a ranch and carries off a 

 sheep, hog, or calf that is penned beyond the possi- 

 bility of escape. 



Elk is his favorite meat, and the knowing hunter 

 who has the good luck to kill an elk makes sure 



