BEARS 



475 



the Polar bear {U. maritimus), so distinct, indeed, that many natural- 

 ists think it ought to form a group by itself. Externally its chief 

 characteristics are its white coat, and the presence of a certain amount 

 of hair on the soles of the feet ; both these peculiarities being evidently 

 adaptations to the Arctic habitat of the animal. It has been recently 

 stated that very old Polar bears exhibit a tendency to the development 

 of a brownish tinge in the fur. Last of all come the Indian sloth-bear 

 {Melursus ursinus), and the parti-coloured bear {^luropus melanoleucus) 

 of Tibet, both of which are so different from the other kinds as each to 

 form a genus by itself The former is too well known an animal to 

 need description, some of its characteristics being the long and bare 

 snout, the ragged, wiry hair, extensile tongue, small cheek-teeth, and 

 the diminished number of front teeth. From all its kindred the second 

 differs by its pied fur, as it does by its remarkably-formed cheek-teeth, 

 which are broader and shorter than in other bears. 



rt— SKULLS. 



Basal length Width across 

 from back the zygo- 

 to front, matic arches. 



i8i 

 i8 



-i64 

 i6 

 i6 



ISi(D) 



1 51 



i5l 

 144 



Hi 



i4i (c) 

 13 

 -12J 

 124 

 124 



124(B) 

 I2| 

 124 

 12 

 115 



114(A) 

 -10 



-8.5 



III 



II 



9i 



9l 

 9i 

 9i 



104 

 9 



8i 



8i 



94 



7 



71 



7 



6i 



71 



71 



74 



74 



68 



6.8 



8.3 



Weight 

 cleaned. 



lbs. oz. 

 12 O 



R.icej or 

 Species. 



Cave bear 



Kamschat- 

 kan 



Polar 



Do. 



Grizzly . 



Kamschat- 



kan 

 Polar 



Do. 



Grizzly . 



Do. 

 Polar 

 Sloth 

 Do. 

 Grizzly 

 Sloth 

 Snow 

 Grizzly . 

 Sloth . 

 Snow 

 Brown 

 Black . 

 Malayan . 



Locjility. 



Europe . 

 Siberia . 



Alaska . 

 Arctic Seas . 

 Nova Zembla. 

 Brit. Columbia 

 Kamschatka 



Polar Seas 



Franz Josef 



Land 

 Brit. Columbia 



New Mexico 



Spitzbergen 



Mysore . 



Cent. Prov. 



Wyoming 



Cent. Prov. 



Kashmir 



Wyoming 



Cent. Prov. 



Kashmir 



W. Caucasus 



Nepal . 



Borneo 



Owner. 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



H. W. Seton-Karr. 



Rowland Ward. 



J. Lamont. 



Sir Peter Walker, Bart. 



Lieut. R. E. R. Benson, R.N. 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 

 Jackson- Harmsworth Expedi- 

 tion. 

 S. B. Bennett. 



Montague Stevens. 

 The late Capt. Townley Parker. 

 Capt. M. M'Neill. 

 C. F Egerton. 

 J. L. Scarlett. 



Surgeon- Major M. O'C. Drury. 

 A. Ezra. 

 J. L. Scarlett. 

 C. F. Egerton. 

 W. R. Bindloss. 

 St. George Littledale. 

 W. T. Blanford. 

 Do. 



