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northward, two having been killed by the party on the shores of the Arctic Sea. The 

 first was an old male, much out of condition and apparently in bad health ; it 

 measured five feet eight inches long, exclusive of the tail, which was six inches ; its 

 height to the tip of the fore shoulders was two feet nine inches ; hair yellowish 

 brown, a little hoary on the back and head, long and somewhat woolly, it was 

 falling off and discovering a very thin sleek black coat underneath. The other was 

 a female and proved very fat ; the head of this was smaller than that of the male, 

 and its forehead was almost flat, the other being slightly convex ; some differences 

 were noted in the teeth of the lower jaws ; in the female five molares were observed, 

 only four were discovered in the male, and the space intervening between the canine 

 teeth and the molares, was smaller in the female than in the male, 



Ursus Cinereus. Grizzly Bear, 



Hunters' skins were seen of the Grizzly Bear. This inhabits the country at the 

 foot of the Rocky Mountains, and is decidedly different in its habits, manners, and 

 appearance, from the Common Bear ; it has not the power of climbing trees, which 

 the Black and Polar Bears, (according to the information given to Dr. Richardson 

 by the natives) do with, facility. It is to be remarked, however, that the traders in 

 their common discourse often confound the Cinnamon Bear, or lighter variety of the 

 Black Bear, with the Grizzly Bear, terming them indiscriminately Les Ours Blancs. 

 This animal has been brought into notice by the American travellers, who have visited 

 the countries west of the Mississippi. Lewis and Clarke met with it in the Missouri 

 country, and called it the White-brown or Grizzly Bear : it has been named Ursus 

 Cinereus, by M. Desmerest. It is a beast of wonderful strength and great 

 ferocity. In the introductory discourse of Mr. De-Witt Clinton, printed in the 

 Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, some further 

 particulars are communicated relative to it ; and a full specific description of it, under 

 the name of Ursus Horribilis, has been recently published in the account of Major 

 Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 



Procyon Lotor. Racoon. 

 The Racoon does not appear to have been met with by the travellers, its natural 

 abode being to the southward of their route : it is introduced here because a small 

 number of its skins is annually imported by the Hudson's Bay Company, and it is 

 desirable that all the animals whose skins are thus introduced should be noticed. 



Meles Labradoria. American Badger. 



I The specimen received of this animal may be considered to settle the disputed 

 question amongst naturalists, in separating the American from the European Badger. 



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