PLATE VIII. 



Pleistocene Bears. 

 (Vertebra.) 



(Two thirds natural size.) 



Fig. 



1. Third thoracic, front view. 



2. Fifth thoracic, left side view. 



3. Twelfth thoracic, left side view. 

 4-. Twelfth thoracic, front view. 



5. Fourteenth thoracic, dorsal view. 



6. Third lumbar, left side view. 



7. Third lumbar, front view. 



Figs. 1, 2, and 5 are drawn from vertebrae found in the peat at Burwell Fen, 

 and now preserved in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge; the others are from 

 Sandford Hill, and are preserved in the Taunton Museum. 



a. Neural spine. 



b. Neural canal. 



c. Pre-zygapophysis. 



d. Post-zygapophysis. 



e. Notch for exit of spinal nerve. 

 /. Transverse process. 



g. Anapophysis. 



h . Metapophy sis. 



i. Facet for articulation with tubercle of rib. 



/'. Facet for articulation with head of rib. 



