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single species, with the type of which most persons are 

 familiar. Even during the last twenty years living repre 

 sentatives of the Black Bear group have been found in near- 

 ly every state and territory of the United States, and also 

 in northern Mexico, Labrador, Province of Quebec, Alberta, 

 Assiniboia, British Columbia, Alaska, and the Mackenzie 

 River basin. Our collection contains Black Bears repre- 

 senting several widely separated localities. 



The Spectacled Bear, (Ursus ornatus). — After ten years of 

 constant effort the Zoological Park finally acquired late in 

 1910, a fine male specimen of the very rare and little known 

 Spectacled Bear of the Andes of Ecuador and Peru. 

 This zoological prize was procured for us in Quito, by Mr. 

 Edgar Beecher Bronson (Author of "In Closed Territory,") 

 and by him presented to the Society. "Prederico" is dis- 

 tinguished by a glossy jet-black coat, very small ears, loug 

 feet and a large imperfect circle of white around each eye, 

 with white bands down the cheeks and throat. In size it 

 matches a small American black bear. As soon as the new 

 bear dens are finished, this animal will be removed from the 

 Small-Mammal House to one of them. If this species was 

 ever before exhibited in North America, we have never 

 heard of it. 



The Andean Black Bear, (Ursus ornatus thomasi), from 

 Southern Columbia, South America, is a subspecies of the 

 spectacled bear, with no "spectacles" around its eyes, and no 

 white markings save under its chin and throat. This speci- 

 men is smaller than the one from Quito. Practically nothing 

 is known of the habits of these two species. 



The Brown Bear of Europe, (Ursus arctos), is represented 

 by two specimens from Central Russia which bear a general 

 resemblance to Rocky Mountain grizzlies. This is so striking 

 that were they not labeled very few persons would suspect 

 their European birth. They have the high shoulders and 

 grizzly brown coat of the silver-tip, and in the Rocky 

 Mountains would be considered good examples of Ursus 

 horribilis. 



This pair has bred four times and reared some very fine 

 cubs. 



The Syrian Bear, (Ursus syrmcas), is well represented by 

 a fine specimen from Trebizond, Asia Minor. This bear is 

 of a pale yellow color, with very high shoulders, narrow 

 head and smooth pelage. The Syrian bear represents "the 

 bears of the Bible," which appeared in punishment of the 



