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haiidsdiiic s]H'L'iiiieii, iiamcil "Engineer," (ibt-aiiied in 

 jMeekcr, Colorado, by Professor Henry F. Osborn, and pre- 

 sented to the Society by the Engineers' Club of New York 

 City. The color of this individual is darker than the most 

 common type of the Silver-Tip, vs^hich is sometimes almost 

 as gray as a badger. 



A very interesting male Silver-Tip, from Wyoming, is 

 much lighter in color than the Colorado specimen. Its face 

 and head are so light-colored it would be called by Rocky 

 Mountain hunters a "Bald-Faced" Grizzly. A third speci- 

 men was obtained for the Society at White Horse, Yukon 

 Territory, in 1905, and its development will be watched with 

 much interest. Throughout the Rocky Mountain region 

 the "Silver-Tip" and the "Grizzly" are identical; but the 

 color of the species varies considerably. 



In a wild state Grizzly Bears live on berries and fruits of 

 all kinds available, succulent roots, grubs, carrion if it comes 

 handy, and live game if it can be killed. In the cattle- 

 growing states bordering the Rocky Mountains, owing to 

 their cattle-killing propensities, a bounty of from twelve to 

 tifteen dollars per head is i^aid for their destruction. 



The Black Bear, {Ursus americanus) . — Until quite re- 

 cently all black bears in North America were referred to a 

 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 J\Iexico, Province of Quebec, Alberta, Assiniboia, 

 British Columbia, Alaska, and the Mackenzie River basin. 

 Our collection contains Black Bears representing several 

 widely separated localities. 



With the above is shown an individual referable to the 

 Black Bear gTO\vp,iUrsus americanus) , brown in color, and 

 of a type known universally throughout the West as the 

 Cinnamon Bear. The scientific status of this creature is by 

 no moans satisfactory. Because of the fact that its skull 

 and dentition reveal no constant difference in structure 

 from those of the tj^pical Black Bear, and in spite of the 

 fact that a Cinnamon Bear can instantly be distinguished 

 by its color, even at a distance of a cpiarter of a mile. Dr. 

 Merriam and all other American mammalogists refuse to 

 consider the Cinnamon Bear as a distinct variety, or, in fact, 

 as anything else than a pure Bla ck Bear ! While this view 

 is correct, it is well known that the range of the Cinnamon 

 Bear is strictly limited to western North America! In the 



