228 irjisiDiE. . 



8. Ursus (Danis) cinereus. B.M. 



Fur very long, very dense, longer on tlie neck and occiput, dark 

 brown, with ashy tips. 



Ursus cinereus, Desm. Mmnm. p. 165 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 690. 



Ursus griseus, Desm. Diet, H. N. xxiv. p. 266, 



Ursus horriMlis, Ord, in Ids, 1819, p. 107 ; Say, Long's Exped. ; 



Baird, Mamm. N. A. t. 41, 42 (skull). 

 Ursus ferox, I. Oeoff. Diet. Class. H. N. xii. p. 621 ; Lewis Sr Clerk, 



Travels, i. ; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 144 ; A-inz Max. von Neumed, 



Acad. Nat. Cur. xxvi. p. 33, 1857. 

 Ursus arctos, var., Middendorff, Sibirische Heise, ii. 4. p. 54, 1853. 

 Ours de Califorme (Ursus arctos ferox), De JBlainv. OstSogr. Ursus, 



t. 2 (skull), t. 6 (skuU, old and young). 

 Danis ferox. Gray, Ann. Philos, Iv. 

 Ursus candescens, -H". Smith. 

 L'Ours noir d'Am^rique, Curier, Oss. Foss. iv. p. 332, t. 23. f. 1, 2. 



Sah. North. America ; California (Douglas). 



" Size very large. Tail shorter than ears. Hair coarse, darkest 

 near the base, with light tips ; an erect mane between the shoulders. 

 Feet very large ; fore claws twice as long as the hinder ones. A 

 dark dorsal stripe from occiput to tail, and another on each side 

 along the flanks, obscured and nearly concealed by the light tips ; 

 interval between the stripes lighter ; all the hairs on the body 

 brownish yellow or hoary at tips ; region around ears dusky ; legs 

 nearly black ; muzzle pale, with a dark dorsal stripe." — Baird, 

 Mamm. N. A., San Francisco. 



The two skulls vary considerably : the first is much broader, the 

 palate wider, the nose shorter, and the orbit smaller, rounder ; the 

 second, from the Eocky Mountains, is narrower, the nose longer, the 

 palate much wider, and the orbit much higher and more oblong. 



The lower jaw with a straight lower edge, very slightly bent up 

 behind the chin, and scarcely bent up at the hinder, end. The outer 

 lower cutting-teeth larger, and lobed on the outer side. The outer 

 upper cutting-teeth larger, with a lobe on the inner side. The two 

 front upper false grinders very small, far apart ; the third larger, 

 three-lobed. 



There are two skuUs in the Museum collection ; they both agree 

 in being narrower than the skuU of U. arctos of Europe, in having 

 a much larger hinder tubercular grinder, and in having a narrow 

 opening to the hinder nostrils, which are oval at the front edge ; the 

 size of the opening differs considerably iu the two specimens, being 



