684 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE URSID&. [Dec. 13, 
condyles of the lower jaw, 10 inches; width of the nose at the aper- 
ture of the vessel in front of the zygoma 3? inches; width of the 
front part of the hinder opening of the nostrils 13 inch, of hinder 
part l inch. Length of suture of lower jaw 3 inches. 
Skull of a nearly adult, collected by Mr. Lloyd in Sweden.—The 
palate is rather concave in the middle in front, and is raised ona line 
with the false grinders ; it is flat behind, with a thin edge to the 
broad internal nostril, which has a transverse front edge; the aper- 
ture is large, rather wider behind than in front. Lower suture of 
lower jaw long and regularly curved. Length of skull, from cutting- 
teeth to end of condyle, 13 inches ; width of skull at back of zygoma 
9 inches ; width of nose 4 inches, of hinder nostrils 12 inch; width 
of nose-aperture 21 inches, rather wider than high. Length of su- 
ture of lower jaw 3 inches; length of grinder 11 inch, of all three. 
Cuvier, from the examination of two skulls in the Paris Museum, 
regards the Black Bear of Europe as a distinct species (see Oss. Foss. 
iy.). Keyserling and Blasius, in ‘ Die Wirbelthiere Europas,’ 1840, 
separate it from the U. arctos, because it has the “last upper 
grinder shorter than the flesh-tooth,”’ probably misled by Cuvier’s 
figure (Oss. Foss. iv. t. 21. f. 6); but if they had looked at the 
other figures, they would have seen that the last grinder is repre- 
sented long, like that of the other European Bears. Blasius, in his 
‘ Naturg. der Saugethiere Deutschlands,’ 1857, does not give the 
U. niger as a distinct species ; and Nilsson (Scand. Daggdjur, 1847, 
p- 208) evidently considers it only a variety of U. arctos. 
Ursus falciger of Reichenbach, which is said to have rather fal- 
cated claws, is probably from a specimen which had been long kept 
in confinement without exercise, when the claws lengthen and curve. 
Var. 2. grandis. B.M. 
The upper tubercular grinder elongate, more than half as long 
again as the flesh-tooth ; lower edge of lower jaw straight. Fur 
dark red-brown, of uniform length, smooth. 
? Gressdjur, Worm. Mus. 328. 
U. arctos, Fraser, Cat. Zool. Gard. (male). 
Hab. North of Europe. A male, purchased at Hull, living in the 
Zoological Gardens from 1852 to 1863. 
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Skull of very old animal, with the crown-crests very high.—Nose 
broad, as broad as the width of the forehead between the orbits, 
rather flattened above. Forehead concave in the middle, in front 
