THE GRIZZLY BEARS 93 



Valley, and commonly called the 'Red Bear," undoubtedly 

 belongs to the group of big brown bears, and in all proba- 

 bility is the same as the Kadiak Bear. The illustration shown 

 opposite page 92 is a portrait of a fine Alaskan brown bear 

 (Ursas dcdli), living in the New York Zoological Park, which 

 came from the country between Cook Inlet and the Copper 

 River. Inasmuch as all the descriptions of the species com- 

 posing the brown-bear group have been based chiefly upon 

 skulls, the exact identity of some of our specimens cannot be 

 determined while they are alive. In the month of September 

 its entire pelage is of the uniform dark-brown color charac- 

 teristic of the bears of Kadiak Island at the season when 

 the majority of them are killed, but later on the pelage of 

 the body becomes lighter than that on the legs. 



From a fine male specimen, of a species as yet undeter- 

 mined, that came to us from the Kobuk River, Alaska, we 

 know that the group of Alaskan brown bears is represented 

 at a point only 300 miles southwest of Point Barrow, and 

 well within the Arctic Circle. 



The Grizzly Bears 



The Grizzly Bear. 1 — Of all the bears of the world, this 

 species is certainly one of I he most celebrated. During the 

 days of muzzle-loading rifles, its name and fame inspired 

 terror throughout (lie mountains and foot-hills of the wild 

 western domain which constituted its home. For many years 

 it held the old-fashioned Kentucky rifle of the pioneer in 



1 Ur'sus hor-ri'bi-lis. 



