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1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE URSID&. 683 
Subvar. g. pyrenaicus. 
Ours brun des Alpes, Buffon, H. N. viii. 24, 86, 61; Cuvier, Oss. 
Foss. iv. t. 22. f. 1, 2. 
Ours brun des Pyrénées, Cuv. Oss. Foss. iv. 332. 
Ours des Asturies, foem. (U. arctos), De Blainv. Ostéogr. Ursus, 
t. 3 (skeleton), t. 7 (skull ¢, adult). 
Ursus arctos, Schreb. t., from Buffon. 
U. pyrenaicus, F. Cuv. Mamm. Lithogr. xlv. t. (young); Fischer, 
Syn. Mamm. 142. 
Hab. Pyrenees. 
Fur of young yellowish ; hairs brown, yellow-tipped ; head deep 
yellowish ; feet black. 
Subvar. h. niger. Fur black-brown. 
Ursus niger, Albert. Magn. de Anim. lib. xxii. 183. 
U. arctos niger, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. 100. 
Ours noir @ Europe, Daubenton; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 333, t. 20. 
f. 2—5, t. 21. f. 1, 2, 6-8. 
Ursus niger, F. Cuvier; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 143; Keys. & 
Blasius, Wirb. Eur. xix. 64. 
U. arctos, var., Nilsson, Scand. Fauna. 
Hab. Europe (Daubenton and Cuvier). =; 
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Skulls. mes| Se [See S2 | Se| es! 28 |S2/S5 
eae] #2 (ESs/S8 25) Pa) Se | ee | 2s 
ABM G- (FZ (ES em 1S |e 
in, 1. fin. Llin: Lojin. Miin, Ljin. Ljin. 1 fin, Llin. 1 
218¢. Nose aboverounded|l 2/13 6/9 8/3 64 0/6 102 4/4 32 2 
ZNSE! 5 ie + 1 23113 0/8 3/3 038 OF O|2 14/4 5/1 10 
218 a. Nose flattened above|l 23/13 4/9 9)3 23 5/7 3/2 5 |4 10,1 11 
Skull of adult from Sweden. Presented by the Earl of Selkirk. 
—Like former, 218 e, the palate is rather concave ; but the hinder 
part in front of the inner nostril is flat, and the cavity of the 
imner nostril contracted, with a thick arched front edge, of nearly 
the same width, to the back one. The lower jaw with a long, regu- 
larly arched suture. Length of the skull, from the front teeth to 
the end of the condyle, 132 inches; width at back of zygoma 
103 inches, of the nose 3+ inches; the hinder nostrils wide in front 
(1,4 inch) and behind (1,4, inch); the length of the suture of the 
lower jaw 33 inches. 
Skull of adult, of large size.—The nose very broad, swollen, evenly 
rounded above. The palate rather concave, deeply concave and 
rather contracted behind, in front of the large hinder openings of the 
nostrils, which contracts on the sides behind, and with a thin regu- 
larly rounded front edge. The front of the chin of the lower jaw 
rather short, keeled on the suture. Length of the skull, on the inner 
side, from front teeth to the end of the condyles, 134 inches ; width 
of the skull at the hinder edge of the zygoma, in a line with the 
