Phe a ee ee a 
1886, } Zoölogy. 659 
the last-mentioned species, as it does also in the shape of the 
crown—but it must be unsafe from a single specimen of the 
molar in question to attempt to identify them. The former exist- 
ence of the polar bear on the coast of Maine is rendered quite 
probable by the fact that the tusk of a walrus has actually been 
found at Gardiner.” 
That the white bear formerly was an inhabitant of Newfound- 
land seems probable from the facts we have brought together, and 
it is to be hoped that the antiquarians and naturalists of New- 
foundland will investigate the shell heaps, should such be found, 
of that island for further facts bearing on this subject. 
We will now turn our attention to the former presence of the 
white bear on the Labrador coast, where the settlers still call it 
the “water bear.” We find only in Cartwright’s Journal refer- 
ence to this creature, but this is sufficient to show that it bred on 
and permanently inhabited this coast from Belle isle or Chateau 
_ bay northward. A white bear was killed in 1 769 at Pitt’s harbor, 
Chateau bay. There is a “ White Bear Sound ” on Cartwright’s 
wich bay. In 1770 Cartwright saw the track of two large white 
island, and in the following May another was observed. White 
bears were also seen up the rivers leading into Sandwich bay, and 
On pp. 410-11 Cartwright describes the habits of the white bear 
in Labrador, stating that the young are born in March, the parent 
ng forth usually one at a time, sometimes two. 
While on the coast of Labrador in the summers of 1860 and 
1864, we gathered what facts we could as to the occurrence of 
Se! animal, publishing them in the Proceedings of the Boston. 
lety of Natural History (Vol. x, 1866, 270), from which we 
take the following extract : 
n At Square island, a locality situated between Belle isle and 
Domino harbor, two cubs were captured and taken to St. Johns, <8 
Newfoundland. At Domino harbor the skin of a bear killed ~~ 
uring the preceding spring (1863) was obtained by one of our 
” 
An intelligent hunter told me that the white bear was es 
Party, a 
not unfrequently seen at Stag bay, near Roger’s harbor, which is’ 
Situated a little more than fifty miles south of Hopedale. One 
Was killed there during the preceding winter (1863), and in the % 
autumn their tracks were abundant. They were very shy, 
tarer. The last polar bear said to have been seen in the Strait of 
Belle isle 
was shot fifteen years ago (1849), at the settlement of ' 
ard. 
mon bay.— A. S. Pack 
- : Zootosicat News.—General—A paper by Dr. Hans Gadow, — 
-Could not be seen in the daytime. Further south they are much "es 
