164 CARNIVORA. 



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150s. being paid for the best skins. They are chiefly 

 used for sleigh-robes, rugs, and wrappers. They are 

 sometimes made into boas cub-skins especially. In 

 some specimens, when young, or in some of the early 

 stages of the growth of the fresh coat, the colour is 

 brown, and it is then very difficult to distinguish it from 

 the Brown Bear (Ursus amencanus). 



The Grizzly Bear is said never to ascend trees like the 

 Brown and the Black, except when it is young. It feeds 

 occasionally on vegetables, but it is also carnivorous. 

 It sometimes eats Keindeer, and has been known to kill 

 and carry away a Bison. It feeds occasionally on 

 salmon, catching them at the leaps with its paws, as 

 they ascend the river. 



Dr. Eichardson, in his " North American Fauna " 

 (page 28), thus describes the habits of the Grizzly 

 Bear : " The Grisly Bears are carnivorous, but 

 occasionally eat vegetables, and are observed to be 

 particularly fond of the roots of some species of 

 psoralea and hedysarum. They also eat the . fruits of 

 various shrubs, such as the bird-cherry, choke-cherry, 

 and Hippophde canadensis. The berries of the latter 

 produce a powerful cathartic effect upon them. Few of 

 the natives, even of the tribes, who are fond of the flesh 

 of the Black Bear, will eat of the Grisly Bear, unless 

 when pressed by hunger. (Page 29) : The young Grisly 

 Bears and gravid females hibernate, but the older males 

 often come abroad in the winter in quest of food." 



H. W. Elliot, in " An Arctic Province " (page 89), thus 

 writes: " Every where throughout this large extent of 

 Alaska the footpaths, or roads, of that omni-present 

 ursine traveller arrest your attention. The banks of 

 all streams are lined by the well-trodden trails of these 

 heavy brutes, and offer far better facilities for progress 



