682 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE URSID&. [ Dec. 13, 
a. Old-World Bears. The fur shaggy. The hind feet elongate. 
The claws moderate. The palate flat, rather broad. Ursus. 
European Bears, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825. 
* Fur shaggy, brown, or grey, or whitish. 
1. Ursus arcros. 
Brown or blackish ; fur shaggy ; hair longer on the withers. 
The palate broad. The upper tubercular grinder nearly half as 
long again as the flesh-tooth. 
Ursus fuscus, Albert. Magn. de Anim. lib. xxii. p. 183. 
Ursus arctos, Linn. 8. N. 169; Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. Asiat. 1. 64; 
De Blainv. Ostéogr. t. 6, t. 7 (adult skull). 
Ours brun d’ Europe, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 332. 
Ursus cadaverinus, Eversm. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 1840, p. 8, 
his fal. 
, Brown Bear, Pennant, Arctic Zool. i. 61. 
Var. 1. normalis. The upper tubercular grinder nearly half as 
long again as the flesh-tooth. Lower edge of lower jaw straight. 
Subvariety a. scandinavicus. B.M. 
Ursus arctos, Linn. Faun. Suec.; Nilsson, Scand. Fauna, fig. 
t. 23 (ring-necked variety). 
Hab. Sweden. 
Nilsson describes six varieties found in Sweden :—1. Black; 
2. Dark brown; 3. Brown, white-washed (the Silfver bjorn); 4. 
Red-brown ; 5. Brown, witha white ring on the neck; 6. Variegated 
or Albino Bear (/. c. p. 193). 
Subvar. b. I/dgeesdjur, Worm. Mus. 318. 
Hab. Norway. 
Subvar. c. vossicus. Russian Bear. 
Hab. Russia. 
Subvar. d. szbiricus. 
Hab. Siberia. 
Fur in all states and ages brown. 
Subvar. e. meridionalis, Middendorf, Sibir. Reise, 74; Schrenck, 
Amurland, 13. 
ITab. Caucasus. 
Subvar. f. polonicus. 
Ours brun de Pologne (premiére varicté), Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 332, 
t. 22. f. 3; De Blainville, Ostéogr. t. 7. f. (adult skull). 
Crown of the skull very high over the condyles, and sloping down 
rapidly behind and before; canines very large, lower edge of lower 
slightly curved. 
