REMARKS ON SOME PALEARCTIC BEARS. ^5 



8. Remarks on some Palearctic Bears. 



By EiNAK LONNBERG, F.M.Z.S., &C. 



(Plates I., 11.*) 



[Received November 15, 1922 : Read February 20, 1923.1 



Among the collections which the Royal Nat. Hist. Museum in 

 Stockholm recently has received from China, chiefly through the 

 courtesy of Professor J. G. Andersson, there is also material of 

 two different kinds of Bears which are likely to arouse great 

 interest. Therefore I take the pleasure of laying before the 

 Society the following notes, in which I endeavour to prove that 

 the pruinosus Bears must be regarded as so different from 

 other Bears that they should form a separate group of sub- 

 generic value, and also what is to be understood by Ursus lasiotus 

 Gray. 



A Bear of the pruinosus Group. 



On the 14th of August, 1921, Mr. D. Sjolander obtained a young 

 Bear, evidently of this group, in the Min-Shan Mountains, South- 

 western Kansu. With regard to its colour, it does not closely 

 correspond with Lydekker's plate of U. pruinosus (Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1897), but there is an agreement in pattern which may be of more 

 importance. The present specimen has the snout pale yellowish 

 grey, with a dark brown area around and especially below the eye. 

 Forehead and sides of head rather rich buff, but with the con- 

 cealed parts of the hair blackish brown ; on the occiput the 

 colour is rather more cinnamon-rufous. The eai's are richly 

 clothed with long, shaggy fur, blackish brown in colour, and the 

 same colour extends also over an area below them. A broad 

 white band extends across the chest and up in front of the 

 shoulders so as to meet dorsally and form a collar around the 

 neck ; but a branch also extends backwards across the upper part 

 of the shoulders, so that by this and the collar, a large oval patch 

 of blackish colour (but partly with yellowish tips) on top of 

 the withei"S (interscapular region) is sui'rounded, except on the 

 posterior side. From the posterior end of the posterior white 

 branch a rather nai'row yellowish -grey stripe continues down- 

 wards, and thus helps to define the black fore limb from the 

 body. The back and flanks are black, with more or less numerous 

 yellowish tips to the hairs. The hind limbs are black like the 

 fore limbs. Although the colour differs in the different individuals 



* For explanation of the Plates, see p. 95. 



