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_arched or curved to be typical ; whilst in colour, all those which 
I have seen were a light brown or slate colour growing white 
towards the tips. A bear shot by me in the Hope Mountains 
is a good illustration of the strange varieties which sometimes 
arise from crosses between black bear and grizzly. This little 
fellow would have weighed about 350 lbs. live weight, and was 
a full-grown bear-when killed. His head was a typical black 
bear’s as far as shape went, and he had not a distinctly marked 
‘lift’ or hump at the shoulder ; his claws were very light 
coloured (almost white) ; his face and shoulders were a rich 
straw colour, fading into a very light grey towards the rump, 
whilst his arms, belly, cheeks and ears were a deep rich brown, 
almost black in places. 
_ The Indians said he was a grizzly ; the trapper who was with 
__ me called him acinnamon ; a friend who wished to belittle my 
_ bear said he was only ‘a rum-coloured black and a little one at 
that.’ I only venture to suggest that he was ‘ very much mixed.’ 
<> But perhaps I have already said too much upon this point, 
-andI will therefore only pause to add this significant fact. No 
‘cinnamon or other similar variety seems to be found where 
both black and grizzly do not exist together. For example, 
upon Vancouver Island, no grizzly has ever been heard of, no 
cinnamon has ever been reported, but black bears swarm. The 
_ same, I believe, may be said of the island of Anticosti, and 
_ elsewhere. In habits bears differ, of course, considerably, and 
yet even here the points in which they resemble one another 
are more numerous than those in which they differ. 
. All bears appear to be omnivorous, but the grizzly is said 
_to be more of a flesh-eater than Ursus americanus. Perhaps 
he is, No doubt he dearly loves to gorge himself upon a 
-earcase, and he does occasionally kill a weak beast or a young 
one for himself ; but like his cousin he is a great vegetarian, 
_grubbing up roots and devouring berries by the gallon. But a 
black bear is not by any means a total abstainer from meat 
diet, more especially if that meat be pork ; indeed, if the pig 
_ needs killing, and the farmer neglects to play the butcher, the 
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