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VERTEBRATA. MAMMALIA. 



Linnaeus was acquainted with but a single species 

 of this genus, the common Brown Bear, (Ursus 

 Arctos,} but since his time more than a dozen have 

 been made known. Of these two are from North 

 and one from South America, five or six from India, 

 one from Syria, one from the Polar Regions, and 

 two or three are European. 



THE POLAR BEAR ( Ursus Maritiinus). 



The Polar Bear, ( Ursus Maritimus,) differs much 

 in its general contour from the rest of the tribe. 

 The head is broad and flattened, the fore parts of 

 the body slender, the fur finer and smoother, and 

 the whole animal much elongated. It will readily 

 be seen how much this conformation adapts it for 



