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tion, and in speaking of a black bear that is white 

 I refer to the Albinos seen in the vicinity of Flat 

 Head Lake, Montana, by one of our most excel- 

 lent authorities on bears, Mr. William H. 

 Wright. I do not mean to say that there are no 

 brown or cinnamon-colored bears in the United 

 States, for I have killed both. But these bears 

 all belong to the black bear species and are 

 simply a color variation, just as one might find a 

 white setter dog and a red in the same family, 

 while the difference between a brown-colored 

 black bear and a brown-colored grizzly is one of 

 genus. 



The grizzly, too, varies in color, but not nearly 

 so much as do the black bears. In some sections 

 one color will be more plentiful than in another. 

 For instance, in talking to many of the oldest 

 woodsmen in Maine and up through Xew Bruns- 

 wick they could not recall a brown bear ever 

 having been killed, but had seen a great number 

 of black ones. Out of seven killed by myself 

 through this section all were coal black, and I saw 

 many more fresh skins that helped to bear out 

 the supposition that they are invariably black 

 through this particular country. 



On the other hand, while hunting through the 

 Rockies, I have seen and killed many brown 



