BEARS. 



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white; while the upper lip may be whitish, and the nose reddish-brown. The 

 claws are comparatively short, and black in colour. 



Mr. Blanford gives the weight of full-grown males as varying from 200 to 

 250 lbs.; but these weights are probably exceeded in autumn, when the Himalayan 



THE HIMALAYAN BLACK BLAH d'j liat. Size). 



black bear becomes enormously fat, the thickness of the fat on the haunches 

 reaching several inches. At such seasons the skin — never very valuable — becomes 

 utterly useless, from being saturated with oil. The skull of this bear has a 

 relatively shorter muzzle and a longer portion behind the eye than that of the 

 brown bear ; from which it may also be distinguished by the slight development 

 of the bony ridge along the middle of the brain-case. 



