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separate it from the fossse temporales, are strongly marked, 

 and form behind an acute angle prolonged into a very ele- 

 vated sagittal crest, which is not furnished until it meet s 

 the occipital. 



Of the first of these species sufficient has been said: of 

 the second, the Baron says, that he never saw more than a 

 single living individual, which he afterwards dissected. It 

 was of considerable magnitude ; the skin was of a brown 

 black, rather rough, partly woolly, and long, especially on 

 the belly and thighs. The upper part of the nose was a clear 

 fawn-colour, and the remainder of the muzzle of a brownish 

 red fawn. This the Baron believes to be the Bear to which 

 naturalists have given the name of the Black Bear of Eu- 

 rope, and it must not be confounded with the Black Bear 

 of America, whose fur is black, pliant, and shining. The 

 peculiar and flattened form of the cranium can be perceived 

 through the hairs which cover it, quite sufficiently to dis- 

 tinguish the animal from the common Brown Bear. 



The Baron has seen skeletons of the same species, which, 

 with some unimportant deviations, preserved in the main 

 the characters above described. He is unable to point out 

 the strict habitat of the animal, or any of its variations as 

 to shades of colour or other accidents. He is certified, 

 however, that the characters we have noticed are not the 

 result of age or sex ; for he possesses crania of the other 

 species of both sexes, and equally adult with those which 

 he has seen of the second. 



Judging from the form of the cranium, the size of the 

 temporal fossse, the strong points of attachment furnished 

 by the crests to the crotaphite muscles, the Baron is per- 

 suaded that the Black Bear of Europe is more decidedly 

 carnivorous than the other species. If the contrary opi- 

 nion has generally prevailed, it is owing to the confusion 

 of this species with the Black Bear of America, which in 

 its native country appears to live for the most part on fruits 



