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me. That evening- I killed an old she bear, 

 but she fell stone dead, and showed no 

 sport. I saw a good many bears at this 

 place, but did not get another, wounding 

 one, and only one. Clapcott had no luck, 

 though he ran foul of an old lady one 

 evening, within two yards of him, and 

 narrowly escaped an embrace. 



The species I have called the snow bear 

 is known according to the individual fancy 

 of sportsmen as the brown, red, yellow, 

 white, gray, silver, or snow bear ; the latter 

 Wilson adopted as the most significant 

 appellation, it being found only in the high 

 and cold regions near the snow, and never 

 descending to the lower hills. Some natu- 

 ralists believe there are several varieties of 

 a brown or yellow coloured bear in the 

 snowy ranges and in Thibet, but in the 

 Himalayas this is not the case ; and out of a 

 great number killed in different parts of the 

 hills, no one differed from another in any 

 essential particular. In Thibet the Tartars 

 deny altogether the existence of one in the 



