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THE ZOOLOGY OF THE LABRADOR COAST. 



fessor Wyman remarked in the American Naturalist, 

 1.575. January, 1868: 



" The bones of the bear though much less numerous, 

 were similarly broken up, and in two instances had been 

 carbonized by contact with the fire. Among the speci- 

 mens collected by Mr. Morse in his first visit to Crouch's 



PARTE INCOGNITA 



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cove was the last molar from the lower jaw. The crown 

 was somewhat worn, but the ridges were not all effaced • 

 it was of small size, measuring 0.55 inch in length and 

 and 0.46 in breadth. The average size of eight speci- 

 mens of the same molar in the black bear was : Length, 

 0.60 inch ; breadth, 0.47, while that of two specimens 

 from the polar bear was, length, 0.54 inch ; breadth, 

 0.45. The tooth from the shell heaps, therefore, as re- 



