124 CATALOGUE. 



137. HELARCTOS TIBETANUS, Cuv. et Geo/r., 8p. 



Ursus tibetanus, Fr. Cuv. et Geo/r., Mamm. fasc. 41. 



Hodgs., Journ. As. Soc. Beng. I. p. 340 ; X. p. 910. 



Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. p. 288. Proceed. ZooL 



Soc. 1834, p. 96. Fischer, Synops. Mamm. p. 145. 



Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XI. p. 444. 

 Helarctos tibetanus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 73. 



Cat. Hodgs. Collect, p. 15. 

 Ursus torquatus, Schinz, Syn. Mamm. p. 302. 

 Ursus ferox, Robinson, Account of Assam. Vide Gray, Cat. 



Hodgson's Collection. 

 The Black Bear of the Himalaya, Blyth. 

 Der Kragen-Baer, Schinz. 



HAB. Nepal, the northern hilly region, Hodgson. 

 A. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



" This species was first noticed by M. Duvaucel in the mountains of 

 Sylhet, and about the same time by Dr. Wallich in the Nepal range. 

 The neck of the Thibet Bear is thick, and the head flattened, the fore- 

 head and muzzle forming almost a straight line ; the ears are large, 

 the body compact, and the limbs thick and clumsy ; but the claws are 

 comparatively weak. The general colour is black, but the lower lip is 

 white, and a large Y-shaped mark of the same colour on the breast 

 sends up its branch on each side in front of the shoulder. It is not of 

 large stature. Fruits and other vegetable productions appear to con- 

 stitute its principal food." (History of Mammalia, Vol. I. p. 113, 

 edited by Knight.) 



Robinson informs us that " these Bears are numerous in Assam, and 

 that in some places accidents caused by them are not unfrequent." 

 (Descriptive Account of Assam, &c. p. 96.) 



Genus MELURSUS, Meyer, Zool. Ann. 1794. 



URSUS, De Blainv., Tiedeman, et al. 

 PROCHILUS, Illiger, Prodr. Syst. M. et Av. 1811. 

 BRADYPUS, Shaw and Pennant. 

 CHONDRORHYNCHUS, G. Fischer. 



138. MELURSUS LYBICUS, Meyer, Zoologische Annalen. 

 Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 72. 



