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and roots of vegetables. Of honey he is exceedingly fond, and, 

 as he is a most expert climber, he scales the loftiest trees in search 

 of it. Fish, too, he delights in, and is often found in quest of them 





on the borders of lakes and on the seashore. When these re- 

 sources fail, he will attack small quadrupeds, and even animals of 

 some magnitude. As, indeed, is usual in such cases, the love of 

 flesh in him grows with the use of it. 



The GrRizziiT Bear inhabits the northern part of America : 

 but, unlike the American Black Bear, he is perhaps the most for- 

 midable of all bears in magnitude and ferocity. He averages 

 twice the bulk of the Black Bear, to which, however, he bears 

 some reseifiblance in his slightly elevated forehead, and narrow, 

 flattened, elongated muzzle. His canine teeth are of great size 

 and power. The feet are enormously large ; the breadth of the 

 fore foot exceeding nine inches, and the length i£ the hind foot, 

 exclusive of the talons, being eleven inches and three-quarters, 

 and its breadth seven inches. The talons sometimes measure morf 



