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taste of flesh; and their thriving condition proved that 
such an addition to their usual diet was perfectly unne- 
cessary to the maintenance of their health. 
The Brown Bears now in the Society’s pit afford an 
excellent illustration of the differences between the 
young and the adult animal. The deeper coloured of 
the two is not yet three years old, having been presented 
to the Society when very young by the Marquess of 
Hertford, who brought him from Russia. The other, 
which was presented by the Rev. E. Edgell, is stated 
to be a native of America. It resembles the adult 
Alpine Bear so closely in its form, in its fur, in its 
physiognomy, and in its manners, that we have little 
hesitation im referring it to the same species. Notwith- 
standing the wide difference in geographical position 
Wwe see no incongruity in such a union; on the contrary 
it would strike us as a very peculiar and surprising fact 
that so excellent a swimmer and so essentially migra- 
tory a beast as the Brown Bear should present almost 
a solitary exception to the general rule which renders 
most of the animals inhabiting the arctic circle common 
to the two continents. 
