locality of the Missouri River a little above the 

 mouth of Poplar River, northeastern Montana. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam is the supreme authority 

 concerning bears. Following I give his classifica- 

 tion of the grizzly and big brown bears, together 

 with quotations from his introduction to "North 

 American Fauna, No. 41" (1918): 



"REVIEW OF THE GRIZZLY AND BIG BROWN BEARS 



OF NORTH AMERICA (Genus Ursus) 



"WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS 



VETULARCTOS 



"When Audubon and Bachman published their 

 great work on the Mammals of North America 

 (1846-1854), and in fact up to the year 1857, it was 

 commonly believed by naturalists as well as by 

 hunters and the public generally that there was 

 only a single species of grizzly bear the one de- 

 scribed by Lewis and Clark in 1804-5, and named 

 Ursus horribilis by Ord in 1815. Baird, in 1857, de- 

 scribed another species, from Coppermines, New 

 Mexico, which he named Ursus horri&us. 



"Nearly forty years later, in my 'Preliminary 

 Synopsis of the American Bears,' eight grizzlies 

 and big brown bears were recognized, of which five 

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