396 Frerp Museum or Natura History — Zoodxoey, Vot. XI. 
three young. The one that had fallen, besides being very wet, was 
slightly hurt, and climbed with difficulty. When halfway up he stopped 
on a limb to rest and began whimpering and crying. The mother had 
already reached the hole, but on hearing his cries turned about and 
climbed down to him. Taking a good hold of the back of his neck and 
placing him between her fore legs so that he, too, could climb, she 
marched him up the tree and into the hollow.”’* 
Specimens examined from Illinois and Wisconsin: 
Illinois — Joliet, 1; Rosiclare, Hardin Co., 1; Olive Branch, Alexander 
Co., 3; Chicago, 1; ‘‘Tllinois’”’ (melanistic), 1= 7. 
Wisconsin — ‘‘Wisconsin” (albino), 1; (M. P. M.) Milwaukee, 1; 
Prescott, Pierce Co., 1; Waukesha, 2; Prairie du Sac, 1; Roxbury 
Dam, 3; Maiden Rock, 2; Pewaukee, 1; (O.C., skulls) Gordon, 
Douglas Co., 6; Waterford, Racine Co., 1; Barron Co., 1; Wau- 
kesha Co., 1; Langlade Co., 1; Pewaukee, Waukesha Co., 3; (S. C.) 
Beaver Dam, Dodge Co., 4; (O.) Lake Geneva, Walworth Co., 1= 30. 
Family URSID&. Bears. 
Bears are widely distributed throughout the world, but are absent 
in the Ethiopian and Australian regions. They are plantigrade ani- 
mals and practically omnivorous. The majority of the species belong- 
ing to this family are large animals, one of them, which is found in 
Alaska, being the largest known member of the order. The toes are 
armed with strong claws, long and but slightly curved in the so-called 
Grizzly Bears in North America; and sharper, shorter and more curved 
in our Black Bears. The teeth are large, the molars having flattened, 
tubercular crowns. The fourth upper premolar (carnassial) is smaller 
than the first molar and lacks the third inner root. It differs from the 
usual type, the crown being broad with elongated cusps. The cecum 
is absent and there are four mamme, all pectoral; the kidneys are 
lobate. 
Other characters for this family are: all feet with five toes; palms 
of feet naked (except the Polar Bear, T. maritimus); tail very short; 
audital bulle flattened and undivided; condyloid and glenoid foramina 
2-2 
= 
Bears hibernate to a more or less extent in North America, even 
distinct; alisphenoid canal present in American species; molars, 
*N. Amer. Fauna, No. 25, 1905, p. 194. 
