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NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE SUN BEARS.* 



Under the name of " Sun Bear " are often included two very different species, the Himalayan 

 Bear, Indian Black Bear, or Tibetan Sun Beav (Ursus tibetanus), and the Malayan Bear or Bruang 

 (U. malayanus). The latter differs in certain comparatively unimportant respects from all the forms 

 we have yet described, and is, therefore, sometimes separated as a distinct genus (Helarctos). 



MALAYAN STJN BEAU. 



The Himalayan Bear is found in Nepaul, Assam, Eastern Siberia, and China. Tt is about the 

 size of the American Bear, and, like it, has close black fur, and a body and head more slender than 

 those of the Brown or Syrian Bear. It is further distinguished by its white chin, by a broad white 

 Y-shaped mark on the chest, and by a collar of longish hairs on the shoulders. 



The Malayan Bear, called Bruang by the Malays, is found in the Malayan Peninsula, and in 



* Ursus tibetanus and U. (Helarctos) malayanus. 



