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CARN1VORA. 



URSIDJE. 



Fit/. 25. 



Fossil URSUS PRISCUS, \ nat. size. Kent's Hole. 



Fiy. 2<>. 



Recent Brown Bear. Alp. 



URSUS PRISCUS. 



Ursus prisons, GOLDFUSS, Nova Acta Academiae Nat. Cur. t. x. pt. 2, p. 259. 



Ours intermediate, CUVIER, Ossem. Fossiles, 4to., ed. 1823, torn. iv. p. 356. 



THIS extinct species was established upon characters de- 

 duced from a nearly entire cranium, discovered in the cele- 

 brated bone-cave at Grailenreuth, and which is now in the 

 British Museum. Though this specimen has evidently, by 

 the abraded summits of the grinding teeth, belonged to 

 an aged individual, this must have been less than the Bear 

 from the Manea Fen or the great European Black Bear. 

 The contour of the skull of the Ursus priscus is less 



