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short, stout, with a rather long chin and straight lower edge. The 
nasals are short, and broad at the end, reaching to a line level with 
the middle of the orbit. 
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b. European. Claws 
2. HELARCTOS EURYRHINUS. 
Fur dark brown. 
Ursus euryrhinus, Nilsson, Scand. Daggdjur, 212. 
Hab. Hungary (Mus. Acad. Lund.). 
Professor Nilsson notices a species of Bear (which he saw in the 
Academical Museum at Lund, said to have come from Hungary; 
the fur is coloured like U. arctos) under the name of U. euryrhinus 
(Scand. Diggdjur, p. 212), which is thus characterized :— 
«The length of the nose (reckoned from the foramen infraorbitale 
to the anterior margin of the intermaxillary bones at the suture) is 
equal to the breadth of the nose, taken either at the foramen infra- 
orbitale or over the roots of the canine teeth.” 
c. African. Claws straight. 
3. HeLARCTOS? CROWTHERI. 
Fur long, shaggy, blackish brown, beneath orange-rufous ; nose 
very short, acuminate, black ; toes short ; claws stout. 
Ursus arctos, Shaw, Barbary. 
Ours en Afrique, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 325. 
’ Bear of Mount Atlas, Blyth, P. Z. 8. 1841, p. 65. ; Wiegm. Arch. 
1842, p. 27. 
Ursus crowtheri, Schinz, Syn. Mamm. 302. 
Hab. North-west Africa: on mountains, Morocco; Tetuan. 
‘Adult female, inferior in size to that of the American Black 
Bear; more robustly formed; the face much shorter and broader, 
though the muzzle is pointed; toes and claws remarkably short ; 
the claws particularly stout. Hair black (rather, brownish black) and 
shaggy ; the under parts of an orange-rufous colour ; muzzle black. 
Feeds on roots, acorns, and fruit ; does not climb with facility, and 
is stated to be very different-looking from any other Bear.” 
d. American. Front claws 
4. HELARCTOS ORNATUS. B.M. 
Fur black ; the nose short, and a semicircle over each eye fulvous; 
jaws, cheeks, throat, and chest white. Length 3} feet. 
“Upper hinder grinder broad, not much longer than the flesh- 
tooth, suddenly contracted behind.” 
Bear, Condamine, Voy. Pérou. 
Ursus ornatus, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithogr. t.; Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1833, p. 114; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 143. 
