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least as far east as the Caucasus and Urals. Although variable in 

 this respect, this form is not excessively large, and the colour 

 is typically dark brown ; while the skull has a comparatively 

 regular and low profile and a wide palate. According to Busk, 

 the fourth lower premolar is relatively small, without trace of 

 the posterior inner tubercle. I find, however, that in a young 

 skeleton from Kussia, in the British Museum, this tubercle is 

 very well developed, while there are slight traces of it iu a skull 

 from Norway (B.M. no. 62.3.29.8). The front claws are short and 

 ciu'ved, 



3. Uesus arcttts striacus. — Syrian Brown Bear. 



Ursus si/riacus, llempr. & Ehrenb., Symb. Phvs. vol. i. pi. i. 

 (1828) ; Gray, Cat. Carniv. Brit. Mus. p." 224 (18(30); Titzinger, 

 SB. Ak. Wien, vol. hxxiv. p. 14 (1881). 



This form, which inhabits Syria and Palestine, has been very 

 generally identified with the next\ and I am not prepared to say 

 that this may not be correct. Among the few skins that have 

 come under my notice, I have, however, seen none presenting the 

 creamy tint characteristic of immature examples of the Kashmir 

 form. In the one skull I have seen the profile lacks the deep 

 concavity characteristic of the Kashmir Brown Bear. In the 

 last lower premolar there is a slight trace of the posterior inner 

 tubercle. 



4, Ursus arctus isabellinus. — Kashnir Brown Bear. 



Ursus isabelliHus, Horsfield, Trans. Linn. 8oc. vol. xv. p. 332 

 (1826) : W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii. p. 302 

 (1891). 



Fig. 2. 



Profile view of sub-adult skull of Ursus arctus isahellinus. 

 The Bear which inhabits the middle Himalaya, extending from 

 ' See Fitzinger, loe. eit. 



