932 MR. R. I. POCOCK ON THE FEET 
the plantar pad, filling up the depression which at this point 
separates this pad from the posterior naked part of the sole. 
Text-figure 10. 
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B 
Ursus americanus. 
A. Right hind foot. B. Right fore foot. 
1 and 5, first and fifth digits; Cp., carpal pad. 
Feet of the Himalayan Bear (Tremarctos thibetanus). 
(Text-figs. 11 and 13, C.) 
The fore feet differ markedly in one or twg points from those 
of the Black Bear. 'The area between the digital pads and the 
plantar pad is hairy only behind the pads of the second, third, 
and fourth digits; behind the first and fifth of these pads it is 
naked and the digital pad of the first is smaller and set still _ 
farther back, its distal end scarcely reaching the proximal end 
of that of the second. The plantar pad is large. Behind it 
there is a naked depression of thinner skin and the carpal region 
is also wholly naked, the ulnar carpal pad forming a large pro- 
tuberance and the radial a smaller one. ‘This smooth carpal area 
