1864.) DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE URSID&. 687 
The British Museum received, in 1853, three skulls (c, d, e) of the 
“‘ White Bear of Cashmere ” from Lieut. Abbot, belonging to a male 
and two females. They all have a rather convex forehead, which is 
well separated from the nose by a depression in front of the orbits. 
This depression is much more deep and decided in the females than 
in the males; in one it forms a deep concavity in the middle of the 
forehead between the orbits. In one female the crown behind the 
orbits is flat, short, rhombic, broad; and in the other it is much 
larger, more oval, and convex. In the male and one female the 
nose-hole is higher than broad, and in the other female broader and 
lower. They all have a large elongated upper tubercular grinder. 
3. Ursus syriacus. Syrian Bear. B.M. 
Fur dirty yellowish ; the palate narrow, concave; the tubercular 
grinder very broad, strong, not half as long again as the flesh-tooth ; 
the forehead flat, nearly on a line with the very broad nose; the 
aperture of the nose large, broad, as broad as high. 
Ursus syriacus, Hempr. & Ehrenb. Symb. Physica, i. t. 1. 
Hab. Syria, Mount Lebanon (Zhrend.) ; Persia? (Fraser). 
This Bear is very like U. isabellinus in external appearance ; but 
the form of the skull is very different. The nose is broader, stri- 
ated, and only separated from the forehead by a very slight depres- 
sion. The upper tubercular grinder is shorter and thicker than in 
the generality of the skulls of the Indian White Bears. 
The skulls of the adult and half-grown Bears from Syria are very 
like that from Cashmere of the same age ; but the forehead is rather 
broader and more convex, and it extends further back between the 
temporal muscles. ‘The nose is considerably broader at the end, 
being 3 inches and 1 line over the canines, and only separated from 
the forehead by a very slight depression; while in the male U. isa- 
bellinus it is only 2 inches and 9 lines wide. The outer maxillee 
on the sides of the nasal broad. The lower jaw is stronger and 
higher, especially at the hinder part. The zygomatic arch is much 
wider and stronger, especially in the front part under the orbit. The 
upper tubercular grinder is thicker, but shorter than in the skulls 
from Cashmere. 
Length of 
tubercular 
grinder. 
Width of 
nose, 
palate. 
in. |. jin. Liin. Lin. Lain. lin. 1 
10102. Zool. Gardens; Syria/l 3 |12 9/7 63 O02 86 7 
NOVO Gis. decease see ceetose ents 1 23110 916 2/2 4/2 45 
The skins of each of these animals are in the British Museum: 
6 is a large whitish animal ; a@ is a smaller pale-brown one. 
They were both formerly living in the Zoological Gardens. 
