24 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 
The dimensions of this individual were as follows * :-— 
Feet. Inches, Feet. Inches. — 
Length from the muzzle to the root of the tail 5 2 Length from anterior angle of the eye to the 
5 Of tail A . . . 0 6 centre of the auditory opening . 0 10 
Height from the sole of the fore-foot to the Distance from the tip of one ear to the tip 
top of the shoulder . Q ° » 2 9 of the other . s . 0 10 
>> Of hind-quarters . . 52 6 Breadth of fore-foot, which was nearly cir- 
Length of muzzle from the nostrils to the an- cular 4 . - - 0 6 
terior angle of the eye ; . 0 6 Length of the sole of the hind-foot - 0 10 
[10.] 3. Ursus rerox. (Lewis and Clark.) Grisly Bear. 
Grizzle Bear. UmrreviLLe’s Hudson’s Bay, p. 168. An. 1790. 
Grisly Bear. MackErnzir’s Voyage, &c., p. 160. An. 1801. 
White, or brown-gray Bear. Gass’ Journal of Lewis and Clark's Expedition, pp. 45, 116, 346. An. 1808. 
Grisly, brown, white, and variegated Bear, (Ursus ferox) Lewis and Cranx’s Voyages, &c., vol. i. pp. 284, 293, 343, 
375 ; vol. iii, pp. 25, 268. Anno 1814. Cuinron, Trans. Philos. and Liter. New York, vol. i. pp. 56, 114. 
An. 1815. 
Grizzly Bear. Wanrprn’s United States, vol. i. p.197. An. 1819. 
Grey Bear. Harmon’s Journey, p.417. An. 1820, 
Ursus Cinereus. Drsmanest’s Mammal. No. 253. An. 1820. 
Ursus horribilis. Say, Long's Expedition, vol. ii. p. 244, note 34. An, 1822. 
Ursus Candescens. HamittTon Surtn, Griffith’s An. Kingdom, vol. ii. p. 229, and vol. v. No. 320. An. 1826. 
Grizzly Bear. Gopman's Nat. Hist., vol.i. p. 131. An. 1826. 
Meesheh musquaw. Crer InpDIAns. 
Hohbhost. Cuorunnisu Inp1ans (Lewis and Clark). 
PLATE I. 
This animal has long been known to the Indians and fur traders as a distinet 
species, inferior to all the varieties of the Black Bear in the quality of its fur, and 
distinguished by its great strength and ferocity, its carnivorous disposition, the 
length of its claws, the breadth and length of its soles, and the shortness of its tail. 
_ It has attracted the attention of almost all travellers who have passed through the 
districts it inhabits, and is mentioned in several of the earlier French writers on 
America under the title of Ours blanc, not that it is ever seen of a white colour like 
the Polar Bear, but because the Canadian Coureurs des bois who were, and who 
remain to this day, almost the only interpreters of the Indian languages, translated. 
* Baron Cuvier describes the Ursus Arctos, or Brown Bear of Europe, as having the upper part of its cranium arched 
longitudinally and rounded laterally ; the forehead and occiput forming parts of the same curve, and there being no 
well-defined line of separation between the forehead, the middle portion of the parietal bones, and the temporal fosses. 
The sagittal suture beginning to be sensibly marked very near the occipital bones, and the nasal bones to be set in rather 
obliquely to the rounded forehead, producing the appearance of a depression at the root of the nose. The sole of the 
hind-foot is of moderate length.— Ossemens Fossiles, 
