3. MYKMABCTOS. 



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Skull of nearly adult Bear from Norway. The palate is very con- 

 cave, especially in the middle of its length, in a line with the first 

 large false molar; the hinder edge rather concave, and smoothed 

 hehind, near the front edge of the internal nostrils, which is thin and 

 regularly arched ; the aperture of the hinder nostril large, rather 

 broader in front than behind. The hinder tubercular grinder rather 

 short. Forehead quite flat, produced behind to a hne over the ears, 

 not convex above the orbits, narrow between the orbits. Nose broad, 

 flat at tip ; nasal bones only extending to rather behind the front 

 edge of the orbit, not nearly so far as in U. aretos of Sweden. The 

 aperture for the passage of the artery to the palate in a line with 



Fig. 30. 



Skull of Myrmarctos Eoersmanni, from Norway. 



the front edge of the hinder grinder. Length of the skull below 

 11| inches, of palate 5| inches ; width at condyle of lower jaw 6^ 

 inches, of nose behind, at aperture 2|-, at canines 2^, of nose-aper- 

 ture If inch, between orbits 2| inch, at back of orbits 3| inches. 



I think that the skeleton which is in the British Museum, which 

 was received from Mr. Brandt of Hamburg as that of a Bear from 



