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the chestnut clumps ; but in places like Glola, 

 where he is constantly seeing or hearing- 

 human beings, he is as hard to get a shot at 

 as the British wood pigeon. 



I was the more annoyed at bemg able to 

 do nothing at Glola, as I knew that in this 

 part of Radcha the bear that occurs most 

 frequently is the species with the collar mark 

 on the neck, of which I was particularly 

 anxious to get a specimen, the more so as I 

 should like to see whether English naturalists 

 would agree with my friend Dr. Radde that 

 this collared bear is a mere variety of the 

 ordinary brown bear. That the collar is 

 distinctly visible in all ages of the animal I 

 am convinced, having seen specimens from 

 earliest cub-hood to downrio-ht old aa'e : and I 

 have the authority of all the Caucasian 

 hunters I ever met for saymg that this bear 

 is as different from the ordinary bear in dispo- 

 sition as in coat, being, though a smaller 



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