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ORDERS OF MAMMALS— FLESH-EATERS 



acknowledges no superior. A small Grizzly cub 

 which we once set free in a mixed company of 

 five or six bears of other species, all of which were 

 larger than he, boldly stalked into the centre 

 of the group, with an air of conscious superiority 

 and courage that was both characteristic and 

 amusing. It was the other bears who were 

 frightened, not he! 



Specimens of this species are readily recog- 



very gray. The huge brown Grizzly of southern 

 California, now very rare, has been described 

 as a species distinct from the Rocky Moun- 

 tain Silver-Tip. I once measured the dry skin 

 of one of these animals, which was 9 feet 4 

 inches in length, and 10 feet 3 inches wide 

 across the shoulders, between the ends of the 

 front claws. 



So far as I am aware, the largest Grizzly Bear 



Copyright, 1902, by F. C. Wolcott. 



A GRIZZLY BEAR AT HOME. 



Photographed in the mountains of western Wyoming, by F. C. Wolcott. The bear was enticed by a bait to 

 within thirty feet of the camera, and taken by flashlight. 



nized by their high shoulders, powerful pro- 

 portions, grizzly-gray hair, and long curved 

 claws. The standard color (in winter) is brown 

 next to the skin, the extremities of the hair being 

 tipped with silvery gray, from which has come 

 the common name of "Silver-Tip." 



From Mexico and southern California to the 

 Yukon valley, especially along the main ranges 

 of the Rocky Mountains, the Grizzly shows about 

 six different shades of color, from brown to sil- 



ever actually weighed was one that lived and 

 died in the Lincoln Park menagerie, Chicago, 

 and was weighed by Mr. G. O. Shields. Its 

 weight was 1,153 pounds; yet when alive, west- 

 ern hunters who saw it frankly admitted that 

 it was larger than bears killed by them which 

 they "estimated" at 1,800 pounds! Thus far 

 the Rocky Mountains have not produced a wild 

 Grizzly actually weighing over 800 pounds, and 

 the average weight of the adult Grizzlies killed 



