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his own instinctive effort to seize the attacking party, and to 
put him in the place of the lowermost dog in the fight. Then 
he bites, and if he gets the dog by the back, and if this be 
a lean thin dog, woe be to the dog. A fat one has a better 
chance. The bear cannot so well get his broader back into 
his mouth, and, the skin slipping, he generally escapes with 
only a flesh-wound. Dogs, at first, often refuse bear-meat, 
but come to prefer it before all others, as does the hunter. 
When hard pressed, the bear will back into a dense patch 
of cane or into a bunch of bushes, and, standing erect on his 
hinder parts, make the best fight he is capable of. This is | 
the time for the hunter, when his attention is absorbed by the f 
dogs. Occasionally one is started, which runs steadily on 
and escapes. Females and young commonly climb, o 
“tree” in hunters’ dialect. Generally, they are then easily 
shot; but sometimes, on the hunter’s approach, they will 
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drop from the tree and run on again. 
I once met a female and two cubs. I shot the mother fait 
in the breast, aiming at the white spot. The cubs treed, and 
I killed them; I then went in search of the old one, fully 
expecting to find her, close by, dead. As she ran away sie 
bled profusely, but the blood grew less, and finally stoppel 
entirely, and I never found the bear. How she could g0 
quite off with such a loss of blood, was a mystery. 





THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS | 
BY SIDNEY I. SMITH. 

(Concluded from page 23.) . 
AMONG UEU: and fluvial species, topography is ma 
more powerful in limiting, geographical distribution, than 
is among marine species. ‘The separation of lands by )¥ 
ocean waters, without change of temperature, is sufficient 

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