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URSIDJ3. 



upper jaw; it is smaller than the corresponding tooth in 

 the Ursus spelteus. Similarly coloured and triturated teeth 

 of fishes have been procured in abundance from the same 

 pit. According to this view, the fossil Bear in question 

 belongs to the miocene strata.* 



In conclusion, it may be stated on the evidence at 

 present acquired, that the period of the existence of 



Fig. 35. 



U. Arctos. 



U. priscus. 



U. spelaeus. 



the Ursine genus in this island has extended from the 



* For the data respecting this view the reader is referred to Mr. Lyell's paper 

 in the " Annals of Natural History." No. 23, pp. 187 and 188, 1839. 



