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were obtained from that district, while the posts on Upper 

 Peace Eiver gave 35 skins of the bears designated above. 

 The adjoining district of ISTew Caledonia, on the west side 

 of the Eockies, also contributed a certain number of skins of 

 this species to each year's London sales. Mr. Moberly, who 

 spent several years in British Columbia, says that he was 

 credibly informed that many years ago grizzly bears were 

 occasionally met with in the Pas Mountain of Cumberland 

 District and amid the Toiichwood Hills of Manitoba; but 

 such is not the case now. He further says : 



There seems to me to be a different species in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. They are much larger than any other grizzly bears seen on 

 either side. Their colour is lighter and they have a whitish mane, 

 and are much more ferocious, but not so numerous as the others. 

 Indian hunters readily attack the latter; few, however, will will- 

 ingly venture on a contest with the Mountain King unless the 

 chances are very favourable. 



It is also on record that the grizzly bear, as well as the 

 black bear, were not uncormnon to the eastward and in cer- 

 tain other wooded sections of the Red River Valley at the 

 end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth 

 century. 



RiCHAEDsoN''s Bakren Geound Beae — Ursus richardsoni 



Swainson. 



This bear is not uncommon in the Barren Grounds of 

 the Anderson region nor on the polar shores of Eranklin 

 Bay, where, apart from, a few exported skins, we annually 

 secured during our five years' sojourn at Fort Anderson one 

 or two examples, with the skulls and skeletons suitaible for 

 ■ museum purposes. The characteristic disposition of this 

 rather formidable animal may be fairly judged from the 

 following experience: In the end of July, 1862, an Indian 

 brought in the skin, skull, and leg-bones of a medium-sized 

 male which he shot in the Barren Grounds north-east of the 



