URSU5. 303 



King of Oudh, 1865. 



Zoological Gardens. 



...... BabuH. M.Roy. 



Napin, nr. Gilgit, J. Scully. 

 29-10-79. 



q. Skin, skull ? Gakuch, nr. Gilgit, ]. Scully. 



22-10-79. 



r. Skull i Sharot, nr. Gilgit J. Scully. 



Var. — pruinosus. 



a. Skin Thibet A. Campbell, A.S.B. 



b. Skin, skull pt. Lhassa W. T. Blanford. 



[Type of U. pruinosus, Blanford.] 



Ursus torquatus. 



Ursus thibetanus, F. Cuvier Hist. Nat. Mamm. livr. xli (1824); Bli/ih 



Cai. no. 22s, p. 76; ye^'rfow A/amjB., p. 70; Radde Ost Siberien, i,p.i2; 



Swinhoe P. Z. S., 1870, pp. 230 and 621 ; Atkinson N.-W. P. Gaeeti., 



xi, p. 10; tydekker f. A. S. B., xlvi, p. 2851 Anderson Anai. Zool. Res. 



introd.,f. xxi ; Murray Sind Zool., p. 39; id. Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), 



xiv, p. 98 ; Kinloch Large Game-skoofing, i, p. 49. 

 Helarctos malayanus, apud Hodgson y. A. S. B., i, p. 340 (1832). 

 Ursus torquatus, Wagner Schreb. Saugeth. Suppl., ii,p. 144, pi. I4id (1841) ; 



id. Hugel'S Kaschmir, iv, p. 5705 Gray Cat. Carn. Mafnm., p. 225; Blan- 

 ford y. A. S. B., xlvi, p. 320 ; Sterndale Mamm. Ind., p. 113; Blanford 



Mammals, p. 197. 

 Ursus ferox, Robinson Assam, p. 96 (1841). 

 Helarctos thibetanus, Gray List Mamm. B. M., p. 73 (1843); 'd. Cat. 



Hodgs. Coll., ist ed., p. 15; Horsfield Cai.E. I. Mus., p. J22; Adams 



P. Z. S., 1858, p. 518. 

 Ursus formosianus, Swinhoe P. Z. S., p. 380 (1864). 

 Ursus gedrosianus, Blanford J. A. S. B., xlvi, p. 317 (1877) ; id./". A. S.B., 



1879, p. 4.. 



The Black Bear ; Harpat in Kashmir ; Mumh in Baluchistan ; 

 Bhalu Reench or Reech, Hind.; Thom, Bhotea; Sona, Lepcha. 



Distribution. — From Baluchistan and the Khirthar hills in Sirid 

 (Blanford) to Kashmir (Hugel) and so along the entire range of 

 the Himalayas to Assam, extending southwards through Burma as 

 far as Mergui ; and eastwards through China to Shantung and 

 the Islands of Hainan and Formosa (Swinhoe) and South-Eastern 

 Siberia. 



a. Skin $ Zoological Gardens. 



*. Skin Sanda Valley, Yunnan, J. Anderson. 



1,700 ft. 



c. Skin Assam, 27-6-72 S. E. Peal. 



d .Skin, skull g L. C Griesbach. 



e. Stuffed No history. 



/. Skeleton No history, 



g. Skull Assam P. Jenkins, 1847, A.S.B. 



A. Skull No' history, A.S.B. 



j. Skull H. H. Godwin Austen. 



