THE BROWN BEAR. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Five toes on each foot. 



In walking, refts on the hind feet, as far as the heel. 



Synonims. 

 Ursus cauda abrupta, Linn. Syjl. Qg. 

 Biorn, Faun. Suec. No. 19. 

 A^jct©-, Oppian Cyneg. iii. 139. 

 Niedzwiedz, Rzaczinfki Polon. 225. 

 Bar, Klein Quad. 82. 



L'Ours, de Buffon, viii. 248. tab. xxxi. xxxii. 



NATURALISTS and travellers have differed very much in their accounts 

 of this animal, fo as, in many inftances, even to have contradicted each other. 

 This feems to arife from their not having properly dirtinguifhed the different 

 kinds of Bears, in confequence of which, they have afcribed to one the 

 qualities of another. All agree, that the White or Polar Bear is a diflincl 

 fpecies from both the Brown and Black Bear ; but fome (a) alTert that the 

 two latter are only varieties of the fame fpecies, whillt others (b) contend that 

 they are quite diftin6l, and differ from each other both in their inclinations 

 and appetites. White land Bears are alfo found in Great Tartary, Mufcovy, 

 Lithuania, and other northern countries ; but as Bears are likewife found 

 in the fame places, whofe colour is an intermixture of brown and white, 



(a) Mr. Pennant, &c 



(b) Buffon, &c. 



