Bear Hunting on Kadiak Island 



these are the black, the grizzly, and the glacier or 

 blue bear.* It is claimed that this last species has 

 never fallen to a white man's rifle. It is found on 

 the glaciers from the Lynn Canal to the northern 

 range of the St. Elias Alps, and, as its name im- 

 plies, is of a bluish color. I should judge from the 

 skins I have seen that in size it is rather smaller 

 than the black bear. What it lives upon in its 

 range of eternal ice and snow is entirely a subject 

 of surmise. 



Of all the varieties of brown bears, the one 

 which has probably attracted most attention is 

 the large bear of the Kadiak Islands. Before start- 

 ing upon my journey I had communicated with 

 Dr. Merriam, Chief of the Biological Survey, at 

 Washington, and had learned from him all that he 

 could tell me of this great bear. Mr. Harriman, 

 while on his expedition to the Alaskan coast in 

 1 899, had by great luck shot a specimen, and in the 

 second volume of "Big Game Shooting" in "The 

 Badminton Library," Mr. Clive Phillipps-Wolley 

 writes of the largest "grizzly" of which he has any 

 trustworthy information as being shot on Kadiak 

 Island by a Mr. J. C. Tolman. These were the 



*The Polar bear is only found on the coast, and never be- 

 low 61. It is only found at this latitude when carried down 

 on the ice in Bering Sea. 



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