XIII. 



NOTE 



ON THE 



URSUS SIVALENSIS, 

 A NEW FOSSIL SPECIES, 



FROM THE 



SIVA^LIK HILLS. 



By Captain P. T. C A U T L E Y, 



Superintendent Doab Canal, 

 AND 



HUGH FALCONER, M. D., 



Superintendent Botanical Garden, Seharanpur, 



We are now enabled to record another new form in fossil zoology drawn 

 from the rich deposits of the Sivalik hills. In a preceding article we 

 have noticed a new feline extinct species, of dimensions approaching those 

 of the existing Tiger ; in the present one, we shall endeavour to charac- 

 terize another member of the same family, of the genus Ursus, essentially 

 distinct from existing or extinct species in some prominent points of its 

 osteology, and remarkable also for large size, like some other of its asso- 

 ciated fossil contemporaries. 



Our knowledge of the species is derived from two fossil specimens. 

 The one consisting of the right half of the lower jaw mutilated at the 

 symphysis, and ascending portion of the ramus, exhibited in Fig. 2, gave 

 us the first idea of a new animal. The other. Fig 1, a subsequent acquisi- 

 tion, is a superb specimen of the head, which although a good deal 

 fractured, is at the same time so well preserved in its princijDal features 

 as to give little difficulty in determining the specific character. The three 



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