3. MYBMAECIOS. 231 



gical Society as the skiiU of a Bear said to have come from North 

 America. It is very like the other specimens of U. americamts ; but 

 the nasal bones are shorter, and do not extend so far up the nose as 

 in the other specimens, stopping nearly a third of an inch short of 

 the upper hinder angle of the maxUlary bones. The palate also is 

 rather-more concave. The length of the skuU is 11 iuches, of the 

 palate 5| inches, of tubercular grinder IJ^ inch ; -width of zygoma 

 6^, of nose 2^, of forehead between the orbits 2^j. 



11. TTrsus (Euarctos) cinnamomeus. B.M. 



Ursus luteolus, S. Smith, Griffith's A. K. 



Ursus americanus cinnamomeus ?, Baird, Mamm. N. A. t. 79 (skuU). 

 Small Brown Bear from the copper-mines of New Mexico, Baird, 



Mamm. N. A. pp. 217, 228. 

 Ursus cinnamomeus, Baird, Mex. Mamm. p. 29 ; Oray, P. Z. S. 1864, 



p. 693. 

 Ursus americanus cinnamomeus, Bachm. N. A. Jown. ii. 1. 127, 1858? 



" Size equal to or less than that of the Black Bear. Colour varies 

 in different shades of brown, very rarely black. SkuU broader than 

 in the common Black Bear" (Baird). 



The skuU of an adult CLunamon Bear in the Museum agrees with 

 the skuUs of the other North- American Bears in most particulars ; 

 but the orbit is oblong, oblique, much narrower from before back- 

 wards than in the common U. americanus, and the tubercular grinders 

 longer and broader. The palate is concave, and the hinder aperture 

 of the nose with 'an arched front edge. The nasals are broad, ex- 

 tending Up as far as the maxilla, and in a line with the middle of 

 the orbits. The lower jaw is not so high. The length of the skuU 

 9| inches, of the palate 5^ inches, of the tubercular grinder i^ inch ; 

 width at zygoma 6| inches, of nose 2^ inches, of forehead between 

 the eyes 2| inches. 



Ursus amhlyeeps (Baird, MS.). " The skuU shows conclusively a 

 different species from the American Bear of the eastern States" 

 (Baird, I. c. p. 217). 



3. MYRMARCTOS. (Ant-Bear.) 

 Head elongate, narrow. Lips moderately extensile. The skull 

 flat above, the nose, forehead, and front of the crown forming a 

 regular shelving Une ; brain-case compressed. The nose moderate, 

 flat above, compressed on the sides. The forehead narrow; the 

 space between the orbits narrower than the nose. The last grinder 

 moderate, longer than the flesh- tooth. Palate deeply concave ; the 

 hinder nasal aperture large, broad ; the sides longer than the width 

 of the front edge. Lower jaw large, elongate. 

 Myrmarctos, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 694. 

 The Ant-Bears seem to have been long known, but somehow most 

 unaccountably overlooked. They are evidently very distinct from 

 the carrion or omnivorous Bears ( Ursus). 



Worm (Mus. p. 318) mentions three Bears as inhabiting Norway : 

 1. the Brown Bear, which is called Choessdjwr (Herb-Bear), the 



