232 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 

 Family URSIDAE. 



Genus URSUS Linnaeus. 1 



1758. Ursus LINNAEUS, Syst. nat., x ed., i, p. 47. Type. 

 Ursus arctos LINNAEUS. 



Subgenus URSUS Linnaeus. 



Ursus middendorffi Merriam. 



1896. Ursus middendorffi MERRIAM, Proc. biol. soc. Washing- 

 ton, x, p. 69. April 13, 1896. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Kadiak Island, Alaska. 



Ursus dalli Merriam. 



1896. Ursus dalli MERRIAM, Proc. biol. soc. Washington, x, 



p. 71. April 13, 1896. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Yakutat Bay, Alaska. 



Ursus sitkensis Merriam. 



1896. Ursus sitkensis MERRIAM, Proc. biol. soc. Washington, 



x, p. 73. April 13, 1896. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Near Sitka, Alaska. 



Regarded by Lydekker (Proc. zool. soc. London, 1897, p. 424) 

 as identical with U. dalli. 



Subgenus DANIS Gray. 



1825. Danis GRAY, Ann. of philos., n. s., x, p. 60. Type. 

 Ursus ferox DESMAREST = Ursus horribilis ORD. 



* Ursus horribilis Ord. 



1815. Ursus horribilis ORD, Guthrie's geography, 2d Amer. 

 ed., 11, p. 291, described on p. 299. 



1 American species revised by Merriam, Proc. biol. soc. Washington x, pp. 65-83. 

 April 13, 1896. 



